Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.