Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

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

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.