the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

There are always loose ends in real life.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

Every step we take toward the top is possible because of all the little steps we took in the past.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Art is only art if it is synonymous with living

Some of my stuff, I realize is just rage.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.