I'm often surprised that, you know, you encounter all types of humanity. And very often, there are some very decent people who don't stereotype even when you might, in your own mind, have stereotyped them to think that they will.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.