I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

chaos: it has no plural.

The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.