The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams." "Like drool?

An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

Are there any leading men in your life?""Several, but they're all fictional.

Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure are prone to do their work well and with good coordination only in a case when their task require simple skills

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

You don’t want it, but the destiny oblige it

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.