Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

Holiness was always something richly dim.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

Humph, ' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' (“The Bogey Man”)

Turning your heart’s desires into actions is what counts most.

Nothing cheap without reason.

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.