This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

Life is about making right things and going on.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.

Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue

A great success story is the only proof that you have given your dream your very best.

I don't get to shoot anybody. That kind of sucks.

I've fancied other women, but I haven't done anything about it.

I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

It's impossible to do something cool without outraging someone. In fact, I usually judge how cool I'm being by how many angry people are following me with signs.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.