[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

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.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

When I write, I see the character inside out, not outside in.

The first kiss is the deepest.""The last breath is the hardest.

I am a woman and a woman of Africa. I am a daughter of Nigeria and if she is in shame, I shall stayand mourn with her in shame.

Al Toon, who had his football career cut short because of multiple concussions, hopes his son follows in his footsteps.

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.