Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.

Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.

Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

Love is like a rubber band, Both pull on, one release And it hurts the person who has held it.