My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous over….

Dullness is a kind of luxury..

What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty..

The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured l….

But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a ….

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship..

One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nea….

In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of t….

I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong..

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a ques….