I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles

Sometimes violence cannot be stopped no matter what we do. But the more peaceful we are, the better chance we have of bringing out the peace in those around us.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Everyone has motives. Let's acknowledge that and get on with the interesting part.

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.