Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

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

Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.