New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

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.

Books are keys that open many doors.

They were both riding too fast for reason but just fast enough for sanity.

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not been sent to divide people.

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

Battles that last five minutes spawn legends that live a thousand years.