And the pomegranates, /like memories, are bittersweet/as we huddle together, /remembering just how good/life used to be

Of all the problems and complications in my life, I had not expected love to be one of them.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

Congress is responsible for every major change in India