From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

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.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.