I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

There's a queer streak in human natures. Men come back to places for secret reasons, for feelings they cannot resist.'More than men come back, ” I said.

Staying indoors daily will eventually make you sick.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.

The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

In that way, I don't understand myself. It might have to do with my own conflicts, where to place my body as a child, which I have carried over to now. In this way I'm constantly dislocated.

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.