“Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities.”

“Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It's what life's all about.. A search.”

“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.”

“Never leap into a lake without knowing what’s beneath the surface.”

“When I walk out to play in Hyderabad, I will feel a deep void. A void that can never be fulfilled. My dear friend, VVS Laxman…”

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”

“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”