I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

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.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father