If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.