A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.