Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
optimism is a disease
Is birth always a fall?
India is my kid sister.
We all owe death a life.
With death comes honesty.
All names mean something.
Originality is dangerous.
The problem's name is God.
Free speech is life itself.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I'm definitely post-something.
We are the storytelling animal.
Cruelty is not a literary value.
faith without doubt is addiction
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
Hell is other people's fantasies.
I grew up kissing books and bread.
The world is a very abnormal place.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
What can't be cured must be endured.
What you were is forever who you are.
Reality is a question of perspective.
Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
If you're offended, it's your problem.
Home is the place where you feel happy.
A book is not completed till it's read.
My heart broke open and history fell in.
Rock n' roll was a kid when I was a kid.
I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
Life is elsewhere. Cross frontiers. Fly away.
American literature has always been immigrant.
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.
Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.
To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
