The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

All of the [Bob] Fosse-esque movements and point of view informed years and years of what I would do.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are.

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.