Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.