In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.