I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

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 recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.