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.

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.

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.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Do not ask God the way to heaven; He will show you the hardest way.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

Nothing is real unless it is observed

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

I think I saw "Predator" when I was six. So I knew from a very young age that it wasn't real, but I just loved it.

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might change, because of international terrorism and Red China.