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

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.

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

I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.