It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.