I now wear a Jawbone. This is a bracelet that keeps track of how I sleep, move and eat - transmitting that information to the cloud. It allows me to track and maintain my health much better.

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

I think you have a danger of regulating, putting regulations in place which will mean there will be no press in 10 years to regulate.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

People are playing games on their TV, young men are, and people are shopping... they are not watching their news channels, but they are using their TVs for other things.

As an immigrant, I chose to live in America because it is one of the freest and most vibrant nations in the world. And as an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up for immigration policies that will keep America the most economically robust, creative and freedom-loving nation in the world.

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

I am amazed that CNN can't get its act together.

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week.

I've noticed people in India have developed a habit of hugging around people. I don't understand it now. I wanted to be hugged when I was young. Now, if someone wants to hug me, I feel only claustrophobic.

I love to sleep.

Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was to remain one for the rest of my life.

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

I am a compulsive writer.

I keep a big, fat dictionary with me while writing.

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

I have no real regrets.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

One has to be ambitious to start writing.

I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed!

All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

I don't overwork - a couple of hours a day is fine for me.

My desk is right next to my bed. So I sit on my bed. I write in a big notebook which is on the desk. And if I feel drowsy, I just have to slide into bed.

From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.

I'm not very good at writing fantasy or even reading it.

A lot of school-going children are familiar with my writing. I am basically very much a children books author.

Writing for children may have kept me young at heart.

I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

I find it very lucky to be an Indian and living in India.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

I wouldn't want a film to be made on my life, because I suppose I would only want them to show all the good things about me and hide the awful things, and that wouldn't be a very honest biopic, no?

I think every writer wants future generations to read what he has written.

I write mostly for pleasure, and the reading should ideally be for pleasure, too.

I like talking to visitors, especially children.

When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a true detective story.

As you grow older, life seems funnier.

In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly an anonymous lot then.

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should be your poetry when you write.