the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.

O Lord God! What plans do you have for me this year?

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

Please pass me the peace weed, and take some heed. Throw away all that mixed up speed.

Jack Nicholson is a hero of mine.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.