Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.