If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

I planted trees for five years in the middle of nowhere, but a lot of Canadian college students do that for money. You go out in the forest for a summer and plant trees. You get, like, eight cents a tree, but it adds up.

The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

The moment I escaped to China, I didn't have any money; I only had one address in my hand of some long-distance Chinese relatives. I didn't know China was that big. I thought I can find their home very easily, and I would come back one week later. But then I found out the address was a 10-hour drive away.