It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing. - Salman Rushdie

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society—freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was — what's the word these days? — atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay mix.