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“Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.”
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“My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about. Therefore every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had ...and will belong to science.”
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“I didn't go to school a lot.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.”
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“Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.”
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“We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
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“Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.”
Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.62, Penguin
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“Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.”
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“A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.”
Source : Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.34, Penguin Books India
