I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.

I would like to be an umpire when Sachin is batting, so to get the best possible view of his shots.

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

I don't think anyone's normal.

Some music really does suck!

A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.