“Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.”

“We build fortresses around ourselves in order to protect the things that are important to us, and we forget that what's really important to us is the connection with other people.”

“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?”

“A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.”

“People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.”

“All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.”