I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.