To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.