“A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!”

“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain.”

“We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!”

“No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.”

“In the New Year, may not all your dreams come true, but may only all your good and right dreams come true, because men have evil dreams as well!”

“There are some masters from whom you can learn good things. Streets are one of those masters!”

“Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!”