When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.