“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”

“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end, life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

“The instinctive Indian sense that nothing begins and nothing ends. We are all living in an eternal present in which what was and what will be is contained in what is, or to put it in a more contemporary idiom, that life is a series of sequel to history.”

“Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all — why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?”

“In actual history, events overlap; you cannot, except by a confessed fiction, state the point at which the event called the Middle Ages ends and the event called the Modern Period begins.”

“Wisdom always comes after the event.”

“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”

“In every interview I've done since the beginning, [I'm asked] 'How do you feel about opening doors?' And I always say, 'There are two men who opened the doors for all of us, and they were Feliciano and Santana.”

“This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write.”

“A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.”