Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

The best stories infuse wonder.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.

A man who reads will find himself.

To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.