You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

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.

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.

everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in America gets to do a comedy show about whatever he wants.

Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!

There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.