There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.