the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals.

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.