And I do believe that the way to change a society to uplift people - not just their spirit but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction you can change what's crushing you.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

But I think it's more that when you're young you're invincible you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing to be honest.

Whoever is content with the world and who profits from its lack of justice does not want to change it.

I was born left-handed but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road ' which was very long I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser so later on I had to change it.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid or to change to a belief in anything else.

I don't change. The things around me change.