This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

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.

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

If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

There can never be surprises in logic.

There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics.

Self-love is part of your birthright. I'm excited to be sharing this message to "beautiful girls" everywhere, including those disguised as grandmothers.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.