You can talk good ideas out of existence.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.