"Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient."

“To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'”

“No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana...”

Source : Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

“In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.”

“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”

“Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.”

“I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.”

“Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.”