Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to me as a result of all that is that I think it did for some people, many people, obscure the kind of writer that I actually am.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

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

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.