Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

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.

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.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

I am certainly not allergic to causes - particularly on subjects such as religious intolerance.