The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

The hardest thing of love is to let go.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.

We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.