Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

The first step is always the hardest

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

[Hillary Clinton] spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an advertising - you know, they get Madison Avenue into a room.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress.