Quotes from Arundhati

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban ' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.