connection Quotes

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

I've always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.