Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Mathematics is persistent intellectual honesty.

Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.