I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

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.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Everything that can be invented has already been invented.

No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.

Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.