Put your backbone where your wishbone is..

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But i….

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things ….

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here..

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself..

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away..

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate..

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well..

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated..

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shar….

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to….

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. Bu….

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else..

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poe….

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be f….

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline..

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything..

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance..

In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love..

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's g….