You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

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

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.