Realism can break a writer's heart.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

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

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

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

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.