Śāntarakṣita Quotes

Bomanz sighed. A man couldn’t get five minutes alone. What the hell did he get married for? Why did any man? You spent the rest of your life doing hard time, doing what other people wanted, not what you wanted.

It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair.

?Best way out,” Elmo observed laconically, “would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords.”
“Sounds a little extreme,” Goblin opined. “But if you want to go first, I’m right behind you.”

Bomanz could not get away from the bird, who, if he had been human, would have hung out in taverns masquerading as the world’s foremost authority, armed with an uninformed and ready opinion on every conceivable subject. His cheerful bigotry and who-cares ignorance drove the old man’s temper to its limit.

Time is the enemy whose patience can’t be exhausted.

Public works which did not serve the rich and powerful had a way of dying of neglect.

My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.