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

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 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.

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

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Desires that are just are termed Truth. Without desires, Truth cannot be understood.