Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.