The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes..

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to….

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so s….

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young popula….

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity..

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy..

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so import….

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals..

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time..

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect tre….

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain..

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my gr….

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her..

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses..

The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it….

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent..

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other..

Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context..

Dying is not easy. It's a very hard transition..

I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times ….

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality..