The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, when they are put up against insurmountable obstacles. This is true in real life.

Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

Love yourself enough to give what matters every chance of working by communicating as well as you possibly can, and trying for as long as you wish.

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

I don't smoke pot or cigarettes, so inhaling smoke as a non-smoker - it doesn't matter what it is, it's going to make you lightheaded.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.