Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The best content is the means, not the end.

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

Nature abhors a moron.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.

Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.