I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.