I will come back to India - so deal with it.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

We are the storytelling animal.

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.