I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.

The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you.

people say I'm running back to the thing that broke me, yeah he did, but I picked myself back up, now it's about fixing him.

You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

Confidence is the public face of competence.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.