Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

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.

It was strange how fear had gone, now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

When in doubt do it.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.