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I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I'm not sure it's the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

While your past can inform you and your future can inspire you, the moment of choice exists in the here and now.