I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.

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

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

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

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

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.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.