Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

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.

That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

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