You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

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

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

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

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.