Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.