"Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind."

“There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.”

Source : "In Musharraf's Words: 'A Day of Reckoning'". www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2002.

“I think of there being two conditions that creative people go through. I think it's fear and curiosity.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com

“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.”

“I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet.”

Source : "Golden Globes 2015: rapper Common's memorable, winning speech" by Lorraine Ali, www.latimes.com. January 12, 2015.

“I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.”

“Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.”

“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.”

“A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.”