People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people who say: "To the hell with you, we will struggle on the way but we will do it". Therefore what I am saying is - and I do not whether it is coming through clearly - there has to be a lot of care exercised by the people who are in the position to give or withhold assistance: if they start throwing their weight around, using extreme language, seeming to order other nations to do their bidding, then there will not be a good result, it will not be done.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.