I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

Important insights ought never to be limited to the group from which may arise.

Never be envious of what someone else has.You don't know the price they paid to get it, and you don't know the price they are paying to keep it.

Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.