All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

A journey once begun, has no end

I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

Humble yourself, before you are.

If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Error is most painful when it is found inside the family.

I never felt at peace with anything or anybody.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.