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

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

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

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.