Terry Pratchett

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.