Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.
Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.
History should be about every generation's will to power.
It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.