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

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

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.