Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.

Merlin’s beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond this there is great unrest.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.