1. A witty remark has impact, if it is apt and in which humour or irony springs exquisite surprise.
2. Great literature is a virtual reality of virtuosity.
3. In youth, one aspires to produce great literature, but reality to make a living is equally a great leveler.
4. A writer is not a scholar. His concern is with emotions and not with ideas. A scholar can be a good writer, if he is lucid and precise in the use of language even in obtuse scholarship or in popular subjects, like Bertrand Russell.
5. Philosophy attempts to unravel ambiguities of life with the clarity of thought, and literature sorts out its perplexities through the prism of emotions.
6. In politics, what is notable is quotable. In literature, what is quotable is notable.

Rasheedakhund.com