It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

faith without doubt is addiction

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

Would you like to meet him? I could summon him up in a trice of you like. Being a warlock, and all.

We have to reserve the right to bomb the niggers.

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

Believe everything you read

I'm at that stage in my career, especially now where I go where I am wanted.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

What is more miserable than discontent?