Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.