Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.Howard Jacobson
As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.Howard Jacobson
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.Douglas Coupland
