Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

Literature is a virus.

The level of your self-control is measured as the difference between how you act when you have nothing and how you react when you have everything.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

Everything I've ever worked on has been hard to classify.

Pakistan is the most dangerous country on Earth.

I don't really like wearing bikinis. And if you don't either, don't make yourself.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.

I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.