What Can't Be Cured Must Be Endured.

Freedom To Reject Is The Only Freedom.

When 'midnight's Children' Came Out, People In The West Tended To Respond To The Fantasy Elements In The Novel, To Praise It In Those Terms. In India, People Read It Like A History Book.

The Fact Of Being Alive Compensated For What Life Did To One.

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.

Be Sure That You Go To The Author To Get At His Meaning, Not To Find Yours.