"Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance."

"Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases."

"Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move."

"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

"The duel may go on for long, but the self-defense often wins over the self-reproach."

"Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs-and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again."

"Like a deep sad noteplayed beneath the oceanwaving through the orbthe memories of youthe bittersweet echoesinfixed forever in my heart."

"The art wouldn't complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination."

"Don't break the rules when you haven't fully figured them out yet."

"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."

"The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress."

"He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house."

"To his shock, as Saarang turned the first page, the words slowly transformed into small cylinders, except for one-letter words which preferred being spheres, and started rolling toward the vertical edges of the book."

"Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight."

"Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing."

"Everyone's mind has sort of a slum division-a flirtatious spot that doesn't give a hoot about how grave a situation is but constantly endeavors to derail more earnest thoughts, almost like a death-wish backseat driver."

"If certain aspect needs to be inconsistent, it must better be consistently inconsistent throughout the story."

"People say there are thousands of options we have in life. I say we have only two: we can either be happy or be unhappy."

"Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman-a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy-a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other."

"Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning."

"If you thought with your minds and not your roosters, you would get the point!"

"A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys."

"Matters of the heart are so incalculable!"

"Fate has this weird way of making your wish come true by supplementing it with ten other spiteful things."

"The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!"

"We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn't discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists."

"There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly."

"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."

"A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work."

"I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I."

"As soon as anger knocks at one's door, wisdom prepares to leave."

"You are the biggest enemy of your own sleep."

"It's strange how necessary it is to have problems to be able to prepare for avoiding future disasters."

"Ideas either age like fine wine or rot like potatoes over time."

"Relationships are the flavors of life."

"Depression is a reality with everyone. What's important is the ability to move on."

"Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Else they are likely going to move on to another book."

"Is that the biggest favor your vocal cords have done to anyone this week?"

"Don't interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own."

"Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up."

"I feel like oversized trousers on sale, not even made of good material, that no one wants to buy. They just hang in there hoping that someone someday will compromise for its low cost."

"I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children."

"A breach in trust brings mistrust, followed by a multitude of troubles."

"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."

"A life without sweets is not much worth living."

"High productivity and a healthy environment are two unconditionally entwined buddies. Our process allows us to abort any attempts toward crucifying either of the two-because as soon as one of them dies, the other follows suit."

"Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!"

"A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it."

"Tell a story in lesser and simpler words."

"I swear by the self-assurance with which elderly men sitting in public tilt sideways to allow the gas to escape loudly."