Vikram Seth

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.