God save us from people who mean well.

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

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

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.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

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