I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

Collecting the Wings Of Pain ~ The Sordid Stings Of Love Is all I Gain- Munish Maya

Our teaching systems mostly teach us how to conform but not how to reform.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

Ted said, "You're working for the Order now." "Yes." "How does it feel?" "Well, Doctor, it feels rather sore and tingly.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.

Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.