"I was only aggressive with my game play. I was not aggressive with people. My personality was just as humble as I can be out there."

“The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.”

Source : "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.

“Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.”

“I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!”

Source : Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

“If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?”

“Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.”

“My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!”

“To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.”

“Only the Dead stay seventeen forever.”