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

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

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.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

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

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.