Everybody likes a compliment.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

So much of literary sci-fi is about creating worlds that are rich and detailed and make sense at a social level. We'll create a world for people and then later present a narrative in the world.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Pleasure is a physical experience.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.