“One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through ...” — Amitava Kumar Quote

“One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.”

“While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.”

“In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.”

“I played music and sang from my earliest memories. The first pictures of me show me wandering around with a guitar that was larger than I was, and it became almost second nature to me.”

“I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.”

“My earliest memory was watching gymnastics on live TV and wanting to do what the 'big girls' did.”