It's the one thing I have worked at all my life, not being at home anywhere, but looking at home.  p. 74

Shivdas was asking his wife to give up their bed to the visitor. It was what Shivdas did on such occasions.....Shivdas does what he does because he is instinctively following old ideas, old ways, old courtesies. One day he will not give up his bed to me. He will not think he needs to. That will be the end of the old world, and the end of the revolution.  pp. 97-98

The only difference between the rich and the poor in a certain kind of economy is that the rich have money ten or fifteen years before the poor. I suppose the same is true about the ways of seeing. Some people come to it too late, when their lives are already spoilt. pp 230-231

I 've never done a job. My father never did a job.We spent all our time thinking about the bad hand that had been dealt to us and not really preparing ourselves for anything. p 199

The Greek philosophers never had to deal with the problem of work. They had slaves. Today we are all our own slaves. p 200

The happiest and ,ost successful people are those who have very precise goals, limited and attainable. p 285

They try to be like the people in the television soaps, and now they've lost touch with what they really might be. p 247