“The aim of literature… is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

“Love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object: it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it aims at its own completeness.”

“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”

“His little face was tense in study, for he had partially grasped, in a hazy, nebulous way, the rudiments of a thought which was destined to prove the key and the solution to the puzzling problem of the strange little bugs.
In his hands was a primer opened at a picture of a little ape similar to himself, but covered, except for hands and face, with strange, colored fur, for such he thought the jacket and trousers to be. Beneath the picture were three little bugs — BOY.”

“When you break someone's heart,
you also break yours.”

“If you make the sole object of your thoughts and aims you will get paramatma”

“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."… So, what breaks your heart?”

“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”

“Your heart can break at any age.”

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”