Born on July 5 — Quotes

This is part of an ongoing campaign against Christians to discredit their work among the poor and the downtrodden. The diocese carries out several welfare programs among the poor, especially educating poor children and providing them with hostels and other facilities. When they get educated, they begin to oppose atrocities, exploitation and other social evils and therefore some vested interest groups opposed to their growth are targeting our institutions.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

Why then are these poor karsewaks an exception? Why have we de- humanised them to the extent that we don't even see the incident as the human tragedy that it undoubtedly was ... I know the arguments well because—like most journalists—I have used them myself. And I still argue that they are often valid and necessary. But there comes a time when this kind of rigidly ‘secularist’ construct not only goes too far; it also becomes counter-productive. When everybody can see that a trainload of Hindus was massacred by a Muslim mob, you gain nothing by blaming the murders on the VHP 19 or arguing that the dead men and women had it coming to them. Not only does this insult the dead (What about the children? Did they also have it coming?), but it also insults the intelligence of the reader.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

I have an old dog, I'm part of the committee for an association, and I enjoy watching TV series and taking naps.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

The individual artist plays the role of a kind of "damaged" vessel into which subjectivity flees in its attempt to escape the reifying effects of bourgeois practice. Artists embody the last outpost of subjectivity, they are neurotic Messiahs, as it were, who represent for all humankind the final hope for salvation from the wholly administered and rationalized world.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

[I]f you want to live like a Norwegian, buy a plane ticket.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

I tell you one thing I did used to like: the fish and chips. But I stopped eating fish this year. One day I just felt the death in it.