“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”

“...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.”

“The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake”

“Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...”

“Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.''How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied”

“Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.”

“...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence...”