Quotes About Author

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

Since 'Qismat' did well independently, it was embraced by Bollywood.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

As for the anonymous admonition about moderation and forbearance, how could the time for moderation be past? That would mean that reason is of no use to us. .

Her last call, at midnight, had been the worst. "I'll pull your cock out of your asshole," she'd said, and for some reason her voice at that moment had reminded him of his mother's.

Newman King was a fictional figurehead, a made-up character.

My lords, for more than half an hour you've not stopped questioning me about some fantastic story or other; one could in fact say that you're babbling, or rambling. By babbling, I mean, that you're talking nonsense; by rambling, that you're saying nothing at all.

A man whose passion for money runs high bids fair for being no patriot. And he likewise whose appetite is keen for power.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Dad's a socialist who wants a revolution to improve the lot of all of mankind literally

In a free and democratic society such as ours, justice should not eternally abrogate one's rights to freedom and liberty, except in the most extreme cases.

The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

In the panic, I forgot.' 'Forgot what?' 'Conditioner.' 'The paparazzi will know. It'll be all over the papers in the morning.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself." (Interview, New York Post Magazine , September 14, 1958)

To shew, that these Qualifications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society,

threw in quotes he attributed to Derrida and Heidegger for good measure, which he always does when he can't handle a tricky situation

Underwater, the regulators in their mouths created a self-imposed bickering moratorium which made their dives more enjoyable.

the normalization of risk in the lives of her high-risk subjects.