Humans are animals of habit.

Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.