Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.