Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.

Spiritual matters should be private.

One play can change your momentum forever.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.