Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

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?

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

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