I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

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.

Hope springs forever.

I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction

Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

calls for equal treatment are often seen as calls for 'special treatment' in situations where discrimination has become the norm.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.