Pooja Kashyap

“Truth cannot be given to you by somebody. You have to discover it; and to discover, there must be a state of mind in which there is direct perception.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

“And if you were not trained, the lesser members of the galaxy that had become visible were so many as to drown the familiar constellations. The night was wild with suns.”
― Poul Anderson, Tau Zero

“I'm only certain that nothing is forever. No matter how carefully you design a system, it will go bad and die.”
― Poul Anderson, Tau Zero

“The impulse to laugh at healthy people who nonetheless fall down is by no means universal, however, was brought to my attention unpleasantly at a performance of Swan Lake by the Royal Ballet in London, England. I was in the audience with my daughter Nanny, who was about sixteen then. She is forty-one now, in the summer of 1996. That must have been twenty-five years ago now!
A ballerina, dancing on her toes, went deedly-deedly-deedly into the wings as she was supposed to do. But then there was a sound backstage as though she had put her foot in a bucket and then gone down an iron stairway with her foot still in the bucket.
I instantly laughed like hell.
I was the only person to do so.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake