The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.

Also I have an interest in spirituality and it opens-up so many different areas of Indian life.

I’d rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date.

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Atlanta is not the South.

I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

That transformation is to lose everything is an understatement so vast as to be without meaning. One has to lose everything, and one has to lose the one who has lost everything.

To become a good player, you need talent. To become a great player, you need an attitude like Kohli.