I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light