"It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected."

"Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature."

"Such delicacies are relationships."

"A good joke doesn't necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one's own deserving jokes."

"Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn't had a long history."

"The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues."

"Psychos are in uniform circulation in society."

"He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts."

"There is no point in housing troubles inside your underwear if you can't solve them by yourself."

"It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note."

"There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids?"

"A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind."

"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

"Writing a story is like going on a date-you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment."

"If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can."

"Many storytellers with possibly more potential than Shakespeare, even though I have not read much of him, could not hit much fame because they treated their stories like their wives. Rather than limiting the emotion only to flirting with their stories, they married them, thus limiting their chances of experimenting."

"Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram's grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air."

"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"

"While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn't necessarily produce the best outcomes."

"Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer's leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur's dance party!"

"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."

"If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don't suffocate your heart."

"This is where the whole thing entered into a vicious cycle, for her proximity always inebriated the hearts, thus only deepening their desire to remain hostages in the cage so that they could booze even more on that beauty."

"O woman, thou art my imperfection!"

"If you really want to talk to the big boss now, make sure you leave your balls here with me, for he likes no balls on people he is talking to."

"Sometimes fate just plays a strange scrabble."

"No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him."

"As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words."

"Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind."

"We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked-like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go."

"I once heard of a class teacher who'd punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever a student wearing blue shirt had committed a mistake. I thought that was pretty bad. I then heard of a class teacher who'd punish every student wearing a blue shirt whenever someone in blue shirt committed a mistake somewhere else. Clearly, the worst is not a reality."