I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.

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.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.