“Do people ever wonder about why it has been said that the mice shall play when the cat is away?”

“The best thing about being married and marriage is: when the two of you never feel that you are married or ever shall or ever were. You simply love one another.”

“In the story of the two quarelling cats and the monkey, no one asks the cake about its opinion. Then I would prefer to be the monkey and we would have an end-of-ideology and politics beginning right here.”

“If silence were your only friend, know that the universe understands you. If solitude is your only company, know that loneliness has left you. Should fame and wealth find you -know that it is much better than your finding them. For you shall still have silence as your best friend.”

“Two wrongs never make a right. But that never means that you can continue with your wrongs.”

“Modernity is not divorced from spiritualism, though it is from the charlatan. The ascetic (renunciate) owns nothing - not even his or her ego - in the spiritual realm. The charlatan seeks to own everything.”

“It is very seldom,” the young man said at last, “that dragons ask to do men favours.”“But it is very common,” said the dragon, “for cats to play with mice before they kill them.”