What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it useful to espouse the rhetoric of faith, because people r...
Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes.
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
En el exilio todo intento de arraigo se considera traición: es el reconocimiento de la derrota.
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Tragedy happens - tragic mistakes happen - when men act according to their flawed natures, in fulfillment of their preordained destinies. The tragedy of the four killers of Amadou Diallo is that their...
The enemy is stupid, he replied. That is ground for hope. There is no originality in tyrants, and they learn nothing from the demise of their precursors. They will be brutal and stifling and engender...
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible. Suppo...
But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in India and her admiration for Swami Muktananda and Gurumayi. That got in the way, especially because...
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
It was a rare thing to be granted one’s heart’s desire.
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a...
It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yo...
Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their ow...
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while ot...