If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.