Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Books are where the true magic happens.

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

The weather gods are toying with us." - Dr. James Stagg

Indian film awards lack credibility.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

Chennai is such a beautiful place to perform in. The city is lovely, and the people, even more so.

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.