It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.