The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.