There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.

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’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

There are certainly a good number of alternatives to "shit, " if you have a particular need to express such a feeling.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

In a certain sense all men are historians.