I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic, ” his pedia said.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.

I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.