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.

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.

Influence can be the worst gun nowadays.

The greatest gift you can ever give yourself is to believe in oneself.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.