“Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it c...” — Neel Mukherjee Quote

Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.

In any restaurant, my eyes alight first, as if by an atavistic pull, on the meat dishes on the menu. In any dinner party I throw, I think of the non-vegetarian dish as central. I view this as a combination of weakness, greed and moral failure. Someone please help.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

I have never met a successful person who talked about failing. The glass is always half full. I don't even like being around negative talkers.

I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.

I'm an optimist - very glass half-full.

I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general.