What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.