I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.