Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

Gardens are our link with the divine.

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.

I always go heavy and I always go to failure.

That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.

I walked past Noel Gallagher on the street once and everyone was like, "Go speak to him! He's one of your heroes!" I thought I'd leave him. I don't know what I'd say to him.

If we could solve the problem of who we are and where we are going, that it would have a huge impact on the culture and waterfall in on some of the more practical and social issues.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.