I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.