But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Men are scumbags until they prove they're women.

Religion (dharma) is decrease in kashay (anger, pride, deceit and greed) and increase of kashay is irreligion (adharma). When Kashay goes away (completely) is the religion of the Self (Soul).

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Most people, after accomplishing something, use it over and over again like a gramophone record till it cracks, forgetting that the past is just the stuff with which to make more future.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.