This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, I will not be silenced.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.