Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."