I sang that tree's glory, its solid, unhurried purity, its slow beauty. Oh, that I could be like it, rooted to the ground but with my every hand raised up to God in praise!
I quite deliberately dressed wild animals in tame costumes of my imagination.
I love Canada. I miss the heat of India, the food, the house lizards on the walls, the musicals on the silver screen, the cows wandering on the streets, the crows cawing, even the talk of cricket matc...
I looked up. I couldn’t see him. He was hiding at the bottom of the boat. He appeared when he threw my mother’s body overboard. His mouth was red. The water boiled with fish.
I don't know then. I wrote my book on the Holocaust without worrying about where the fucking bar code would go.
I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.
I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. The mosque was truly an open construction, to God and to breeze. We sat...
I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: White, white! L-L-Love! My God!—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry,...
I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
I am careful never to talk about religion. Who am I to kick at people's crutches?
His father had been his sole supporter, telling him to live for his love for Dora, in precise opposition to his uncle's silent opprobrium. Dora was relegated to invisible duties deep within the kitche...
From Matheran I mailed the notes of my failed novel. I mailed them to fictitious address.
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deept trust, a free act of love- but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was...
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation
Do you see the invisible spirals on the margins of the page? I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
Art is water, and just as humans are always close to water, for reasons of necessity (to drink, to wash, to flush away, to grow) as well as for reasons of pleasure (to play in, to swim in, to relax in...
A tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
إن من نلتقيهم يمكن أن يغيروننا، وأحيانًا يكون التغيير عميقًا إلى حدّ أننا لا نعود الأشخاص أنفسهم بعد ذلك.