And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.