The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

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.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

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.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.