The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

India always changes people, and I have been no exception

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

She explains that often the people who mean the most to us have to be left behind because they cannot follow us along our destined path.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Nothing won't change, until the choice is placed first. And until when choice is given a chance.

The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.