India lives in several centuries at the same time.

I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan and America do to oppress others and to deceive their own people is a dangerous world.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world as a black cat. He said that there were only black cat chaped holes in the universe.

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.