Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

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.

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.

Your inner knowledge of yourself is what matters

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

Life is closely related to science than art because it has more practicals

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

People forget that there is a big difference between coercion and persuasion. The idea that evangelism is coercive is nonsense.

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.