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

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.

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

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.

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conversion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

Terminological inexactitude

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

The issue is to trying to figure out why we end up spending so much more than other countries.

Oh, I get it," I said. "You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.

I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.