I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

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.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

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

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

God save us from people who mean well.