I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

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

My eyes close. I am here and not here. A waking nap? A flight to the end of the galaxy and perhaps a couple of billion light-years beyond?

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.

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

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

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.