Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

What you were is forever who you are.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.