A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

Future is the son of Women.because women give birth to future....give respect to all women.

In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Publishing requires a lot of persistence and a fair amount of luck.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.