“We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.”

“But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.”

“it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.”

“If you value your friendship with someone, you will always try to maintain that friendship at any cost. No matter what it is that has set you apart. Friends are hard to keep, and true friends are hard to find.”

“What does it matter if you can speak two or more languages if you have nothing original to say in any language?”

“There's a truth deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We're helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn't always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.”