I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

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.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.