We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

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.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.

I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion.

Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.