See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

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

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.