meaning Quotes

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.