Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi, ’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.

To obey the serpent is to live in once upon a time glory of God

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.