“We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the stude...” — Gulzar Quote

“We have been teaching 'Paradise Lost' and 'Julius Caesar' to the students but we are not teaching them 'Kalidas' or Indian drama and epics.”

“When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader knows Urdu well.”

“Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.”

“When you shake mercury it keeps trembling until it reaches a point when it stops. When you get me started on Partition, that is how I am. It goes back and keeps shaking me up, on and on.”

“Nostalgia is not a place to live.”

“A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh.”

“In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.”

“If the family sticks together, things are easy. If not, it will fall apart. There are several examples in history. Take Troy or take Caesar.”

“If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.”

“In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.”

“What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.”

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”