When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.