Vishal Khatri

“Simplicity rules everything worth while, and whenever I have been up against a business proposition which, after taking thought, I could not reduce to simplicity, I have realized that it was hopelessly wrong and I have let it alone.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

“Before pulling her veil back down, she lifted it a little more and cast a glance that Omar noticed, inhaled, and tried to hold on to. It was a moment too fleeting to be detected by the crowd but an eternity for the lover. Time has two faces, Khayyam said to himself. It has two dimensions, its length is measured by the rhythm of the sun but its depth by the rhythm of passion.”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.”
― John McPhee, Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

“The art of reading, as of learning, is this:… to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany