I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.

You should only be scared of your imagination because it'll haunt you at night

It is good to forget one's anger against one's wrongdoer, whoever he may be, for countless number of evils will quickly grow from this anger.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life.

Change your thoughts... charge your life.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.