Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

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