[A] novelist is a man capable of building a skyscraper to conceal a dead mouse. -Saul Bellow

"I am 100 percent Christian, 100 percent Hindu, 100 percent Buddhist, and 100 percent secular." -Raimon Panikkar

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. -Sherlock Holmes

The soul of hermeneutics lies in the fact that the other might be right. Hans-Georg Gadamer

Once it was East and West; then came Tradition and Modernity. Now it is Tradition and Science. Although the nomenclature has been changing, the substance and the ambience that the dyads are supposed to represent have not undergone much change. -S.C. Bhattacharya, 1999

‘You've got me wrong,’ she said, ‘all wrong. I don’t believe in God.’ “Then what do you believe in?’ ‘History.’ He looked at her in astonishment for a moment, then laughed. ‘Oh, Liz...oh no. You're not a bloody Communist?’ She nodded... le Carre, The Spy who Came in from the Cold

‘We believe in a healthy mind in a healthy body. The body politic must be sound if the soul is to be healthy. Moral and physical health are synonymous.’ ‘Mussolini,’ I interjected, ‘said the same to me.’ Hitler beamed. -Hitler, Interviewed by Viereck, Liberty, 9 July 1932

1. We must make political films. 2. We must make films politically. ... 36. To carry out 2 is to use images and sounds as teeth and lips to bite with. 37. To carry out 1 is to only open the eyes and the ears. -Jean-Luc Godard, WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

"Author’s Note Examples of Rowling’s text are in the form of paraphrase rather than direct quotation as, unusually, permission has not been granted to quote any passages from the Harry Potter books." Julia Eccleshare, A Guide to the Harry Potter Novels

Self steams.

Two lovers! From Hisham Ibn-Al-Kalbi's Kitab Al-Asnam [The Book of Idols]

Ganges water and the Mughals - K.T. Achaya, Indian Food (1994)

And God said [to AI], "Let there be light," and there was light!

The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A Biography David Gordon White