Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.

What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

Inconvenience in progress, work is regretted.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books