“Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.”

“I believe in working every day, and not necessarily repeating one way of working. I like to make something come out of trial and error methods – fooling around with mediums and taking the chance of its not coming to everything.”

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.”

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”

“Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.”

“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

“The Bhṛṅgadūtam should be read, melodiously sung and contemplated upon day in and day out by the devotees of Lord Rāma.”

“Lemony Snicket: (narrating) Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage.”