. . . the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.
I feel a feeling which I feel you all feel.
We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"
I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.
The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the darling of the new emerging Indian middle class – they needed a princess. They had the wrong woman. I had this light shining on me at the time, and I knew that I had the stage to say something about what was happening in my country. What is exciting about what I have done since is that writing has become a weapon, some kind of ammunition.
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.