Vikram

“The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.”
― Theodore Zeldin

“A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.”
― Theodore Zeldin

“I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.”
― Theodore Zeldin

“I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together--it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."

"But you're doing it now--in a way."

"Yes, in a way--that's how I always say things: in a way.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name