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“Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.”
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“I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.”
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“The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.”
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“Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.”
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“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”
Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.72, Basic Books
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“Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.”
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“There is no such things as "Islamic terrorism," because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term "Islamic terrorism" has become widespread.”
Source : "If Sanctions Are Imposed on Syria, the Entire World Will Pay the Price". Memri TV, December 2005.
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“The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.”
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“The racial question, and thus class struggle, of course, I think they are processes which necessarily are intersecting all the time. I understand that there are moments they disassociate, but in the end they are things that go walking together practically all the time.”
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“I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.”
