It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

If you ask me teachers really suck... but what doesn't suck is the knowledge you have these days a lot of which is free which mean that you can put it in practice.

In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.