If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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.

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.