My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

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

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.