Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.