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“We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative individuals who write with fury and fire about the world, and in new ways, without having them say things like "I read a really good Indian book," or "That Malaysian fellow writes very well." So I hope by identifying as Indian I can get people who don't usually read "ethnic" or "Indian" literature to read that literature and enjoy it.”
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“I am athirst for God, the living God.”
Source : Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”
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“May Allah have mercy on him who sends me my faults as a present.”
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“'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'”
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“A storm was brewing. The wind has picked up and a mass of purple clouds was coming in from the West. It felt good to have my hair whipping around my head. I thought it might feel good to have hail beat down on me. Sometimes storms outside are the only relief for storms inside...”
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“Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been the key point of recognition for an artist, the museum today is just another place to experiment and work, like we can do in any art fair. The king or queen of the moment is completely ignored and replaced by the new one a few years later. Contemporary novelty in art disappears faster than the seasonable changes of the fashion designs.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.”
Source : Interview with Jennifer Rycenga, November 2, 1988.
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“I finally found me a cloud to float on.”
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“Inner Nature, when relied on, cannot be fooled. Â But many people do not look at it or listen to it, and consequently do not understand themselves very much. Â Having little understanding of themselves, they have little respect for themselves, and are therefore easily influenced by others.”
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“The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.”
Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin
