“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”

“Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.”

“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us wha...”

“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”

“The creative act is not pure.”

“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”

“From the moment you realize, I am the most worthless person in this world; you become valuable.”

“No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is vyavasthit [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So dont tell anyone, you did wrong...”

“To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”