“Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.”

I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.

Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.

Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas.

I’m defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I’d probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that’s why I like public clocks.

I’m more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I’m not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.