God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

I think the we all drown, in one way or another.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

If the Times gave readers far more news, then Lippmann at the Trib made the world seem far more understandable.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

America is not a white man's republic.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.