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.

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.

I'll be singing hymns to the rafters, be praising His goodness so loud they're going to have to turn down the volume in Heaven.

Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough

My gramps is a lot like you. No sense of adventure. All he does is sit in his urn...

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

If you want to create, you'll create.

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.