Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.