If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

There is good in every year.

Why weren’t you beautiful? That would’ve solved everything.’('Left from Dhakeshwari')

Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn't mean true selfish

A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

Most things get better by themselves. Most things, in fact, are better by morning.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.