Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

What you discover valuable to you can make all the difference in your life.

People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

You need have no dull hours if you are a sincere lover of books.

Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.