People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.

Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

My administration will put new American metal into the spine of this nation.

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

You've got a chemistry class; I want a piece of your mind; You don't know what you started when you mixed it up with mine.

Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his sweater!

Sometimes there are those that have been dealt a bad hand at life and are dealing with some heavy issues. The least I can do is try to brighten a persons day.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.