I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.