‘Don’t let anyone say to you that nothing exciting ever happens to you when you are old. Because it does. And it’s just as nice to be seventy as it is to be young.’
–Agatha Christie (from the Mousetrap Man by Peter Saunders)
‘Don’t let anyone say to you that nothing exciting ever happens to you when you are old. Because it does. And it’s just as nice to be seventy as it is to be young.’
–Agatha Christie (from the Mousetrap Man by Peter Saunders)
“I am not very easy frightened,” said he, “nor very easy beat.”
‘Opportunity knocks but it doesn’t pester.’
‘Do not neglect your gift.’
– 1 Timothy 4:14
‘Something is fishy on Mercury, all right. Everyone’s whistling a different tuna, and they’re all red herrings.’
As a writer, the stuff that doesn’t matter, matters too.’
‘Change by itself is of no consequence – everything changes. The consciousness emerging from it is, I feel, of greater importance.’
– Savitri – P.S Rege
– The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories – Edited by Stephen Alter and Wimal Dissanayake
‘Neither of us spoke, partly because it was safer not to speak; and partly I think because the beauty of the starry heaven had taken hold upon us both, filling our hearts with thoughts too big for words.’
‘I withdrew from places that are preoccupied with winning and losing.’
‘The Courage To Be Disliked’ – Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga