Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
“One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.”
“American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.”