Arundhati Roy

"For the first time in my life I'm glad that I have no idea what the future holds."

"Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it."

"The idea of revolution is not a modern idea. It's an old idea."

"Take what you can from this world, but leave the dream."

"We are not prisoners of fate. We are prisoners of our own minds."

"Mistakes are not the only things from which we learn."

"The cost of living in this world is unimaginable now."

"Hope is a very dangerous thing. It can set you up for bitter disappointment."

"What is the story? Just fragments of fiction to make me feel better about this."

"Living, real living, is sales and marketing and statistics. It's a lot of white noise."

"I keep saying that the day we stop being afraid is the day we will be free."

"A lot depends on where you're from and who your parents are."

"The trouble with novels is that they're trying to tell the truth."

"I'm interested in how we're living now, and what that means."

"Memory is a selective thing. You remember what you want to remember."

"In the end, I think we are all just searching for connection."

"The world is ordered by very few people who get to make the decisions."

"What if some of the things you used to write about are disappearing?"

"I believe in the capacity of the human spirit to resist even the most oppressive circumstances."

"The idea of progress is a Western invention."

"I think it's important to maintain your own sense of humor about these things."

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of fear."

"The government is not interested in what people think."

"I've learned that you cannot separate art from politics."

"The saddest thing is that there's so little time left."

"Every single act of violence has reverberations that echo in ways we can't always predict."

"You can't really separate your personal life from your political life."

"The most important thing is to stay sane in a mad world."

"I think we need to be much more honest about what we're doing."

"There is a kind of beauty in damaged things."