“That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated ...” — Michael Ondaatje Quote

“That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.”

“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”

“Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.”

“The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.”

“A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.”

“Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.”

“In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.”

“I had the chance - maybe it was karma - to run in my late teens into the path of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari at university and at the open psychiatric hospital La Borde outside of Paris.”

“I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.”

“I still do believe in the power of the Internet for good. I believe it's a net positive. I believe that it does connect people. It does give people a chance to be more of themselves. It does allow for content to be created for audiences that were being completely ignored and neglected.”

“I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.”