Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.