To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

At the end of the day all we ever need is something that helped pass the time and something that keeps time from passing.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

I try to hold my charisma in check.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

I've chosen films that are different compared to the conventional Bollywood films we all know and love.

Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

I started recording the album four years ago. It was very different then - totally rock and roll.