None Of Us Lie Or Guard Our

It Isn't A Secret, Unless Keeping It Hurts.

I Look Back, Now, And I Know That The Naming Moment, Which Seemed So Insignificant Then, Which Seemed To Demand No More Than An Arbitrary And Superstitious Yes Or No, Was In Fact A Pivotal Moment In My Life.

That's How They Manage To Live Together, A Billion Of Them, In Reasonable Peace. They Are Not Perfect, Of Course. They Know How To Fight And Lie And Cheat Each Other, And All The Things That All Of Us Do. But More Than Any Other People In The World, The Indians Know How To Love One Another.

I Think The Novel Form Chose Me. I Was A Writer Before I Became A Criminal... My First Instinct Was To Write.

Cowardece Is Often Just Another Name For Being Taken By Surprise.