Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I'm one of three brothers.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

Anarchy and Liberty are synonymous. Anything less is merely gradient levels of slavery.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

If there was a simple ethic for the band, it was that we want to be able to do whatever we want to do.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

While 1857 was about 'Swaraj ki ladai', the 2014 elections would be about 'Surajya ki ladai'.