It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.