I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

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