A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice.

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

A wise man is able to differentiate between humility and weakness, he does not mistake courage for pride.

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it's gold pieces be worth that much.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it

I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.