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.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

Barack Obama is crazy sexy.