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

You can talk good ideas out of existence.

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

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

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.