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

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.

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.

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?

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

The coop is guarded from the inside.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.