Hanif Kureishi

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.