We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

There's little money in theatre.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble.

We are born to unfold the beauty of life and to adorn the universe with unique thoughts.

Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.

True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.