You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.