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

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

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

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.