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.

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

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

Be free! Get out of your prison of conforming thoughts.

I feel age like an icicle down my back.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

I led the way toward the crowd, trying to look casual, like, Fly? Me? Nah.

I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.

Having personal things in balance is more important than the other.

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.