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

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

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

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.