"Noone is as blind as the one who does not want to see."

- Dr. KJS (Sunny) Anand, paediatrician and researcher

They said,"You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."
The man replied,"Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.

- Wallace Stevens

"Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble the picture."

Iris Murdoch (as quoted by Simon Leys in NYRB)

"He who has never seen himself surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of his relation to it." 


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those who are willing to claim them."

~ Reinaldo Arenas