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

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.

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.

It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.

It's a brave new world.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

David Haye is too light. Simply too light. He's not a real heavyweight.