There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.