“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”

“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

“Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr.Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger.”

“High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. ”

“The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.”

“The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.”