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

India always changes people, and I have been no exception

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

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.

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.

And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

Such sentences always end in silence, no matter how they may begin--indeed, this is the very essence of fate: that which we never quite manage to say.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.

With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flowers bloom.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.