“One must speak about serious things seriously.”

“That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.”

“When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.”

“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”

“Of God one doesn't speak with any precision or seriousness except in poetry.”

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”

“We need to the right thing. Take this seriously, not to verbalize about it, and not to talk.”