I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

In solitude when we are least alone.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.