Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live

The music of rebellion makes you want to rageBut it's made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age

Silence and creativity are very close friends!

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.