You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

sometimes, silence can be very loud

He is my vulnerability

In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

I like watching films that are 94 minutes as a spectator. I think it's rare that you don't come out, even from a good film, thinking I wish it could have been a little bit shorter.

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.

Sure," said Adrian. "I bet going in there and kicking down the door will change their minds. Take Rose with you, and you guys'll make a really good impression.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.