Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.