“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.

One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

You deserve the love that stays with you like the childhood poem you still remember by heart.

I missed out on my childhood. I had to work hard, but I was immediately given a place in playback.

Since childhood, I have wanted to become Miss Universe India, and I did. I am so grateful to God for that.

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

I let go of childhood fears. I am a secure, empowered human being.

Since childhood, I was ingrained into sports. It plays an important part in my life.

You’re a patched tapestry, of deep childhood trauma’s, and unkept promises.