I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

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.