And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

God save us from people who mean well.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

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.

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