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

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.