I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

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

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.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

The more of himself man attributes to God the less he has left in himself.

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

There's a difference... between the kind of woman you would bang and the kind of woman you would marry.