I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

India always changes people, and I have been no exception

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.

There are no perfectly honorable men

Go on till you come to the end

Making money from money is like aerobatics.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

I use a computer. I don't know if that qualifies me as a techie, but I'm pretty good on the computer.

All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.