People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

I'm a chemistry guy. I believe you've got to play together to have a chance to win.

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.

Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.