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

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.