We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

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.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

Pro-choice is the only way to be-- because women are human beings, after all, and should be treated as such.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.

I don't want to impress somebody, I want to move somebody. Say the most with the least.