There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

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.

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

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.