I admire people who come to politics because it takes a lot of courage to be in politics in India.

Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

Cosmetic companies are trying to turn India into a nation of Albinos. No dark area on any part of the body. Except maybe our hearts. Got a cream for that?

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

Temporary homecomings are bittersweet. Sometimes it's better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural.

Why did you come if not to murder my king?" "I came to steal his magus." "You can't," said the magus in question. "I can steal anything," Eugenides corrected him, "even with one hand.

Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.