Hari Kumar

“Journey before destination, you bastard.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War

“When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency.”
― John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace: Enriched edition. Analyzing the Aftermath: Economic Treaties and Post-War Europe

“I am staring out of the window in an extremely dark mood, feeling helpless. Then a friend, a fellow artist, calls... he asks, ‘How are you?' and instead of ‘Oh, fine... and you?', I blurt out the truth: ‘Not well. Not only am I depressed, I can’t seem to work, to write; it’s as though I am paralyzed, unable to write anything... I’ve never felt this way before…' I am about to explain with further detail when he interrupts, shouting: ‘No! No, no, no! This is precisely the time when artists go to work... not when everything is fine, but in times of dread. That’s our job.' I felt foolish the rest of the morning, especially when I recalled the artists who had done their work in gulags, prison cells, hospital beds; who did their work while hounded, exiled, reviled, pilloried. And those who were executed... this is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
― Toni Morrison