Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Purposefulness is a must

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.

I find righteous denunciations of the present state of the language no less dismaying than the present state of the language.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.