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

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.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

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

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?