The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
I used to hang out with a bunch of old punk rockers when I was a little kid.
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
I think a lot of people, not all of them, but a bunch of TV people put Donald Trump on television thinking he's making a fool of himself and thinking that he's making a fool of the GOP. I think early on that's what the Republican establishment thought. "Oh, let's hear more of this guy. He's just helping us left and right. He's digging his own grave here. "