I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.