Subhasish Das

“This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘serious’ courses replete with ‘trends ’ and ‘schools ’ and ‘myths ’ and ‘symbols ’ and ‘social comment ’ and something unspeakably spooky called ‘climate of thought.’ Actually these ‘serious’ courses were quite easy ones with the students required to know not the books but about the books.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Photography turns one and all into fools, including—especially—artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables as possible inside a 35 mm frame but doomed to return empty-handed far more often than not.”
― Richard Woodward

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.”
― Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will

“Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.”
― Brendan Gill