An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

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

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.