Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.

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.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

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

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