English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.

I vow that i will never forget this once in a life time love and to know it to be the deepest part of our soul and no matter how far the wave carry us apart we will always find our way to eachother.

Always believe everyone because believing might one day be able to save you

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

As a kid, image played a huge part. I'm sure most kids find the image of the guitarist exciting.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.