Rohinton Mistry Quotations

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...

All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.