I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

We sat on the floor for dinner. Ananya's father passed me a banana leaf. I wondered if i had to eat it or wipe my hands with it.

She is too intelligent to be a good daughter-in-law

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..the worst part is we can't say who is who

By one fact, the Self [Soul] is the creator [of new karma]. From another fact, the Self [Soul] is not the creator.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

In Adam's Fall We sinned all.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

Theater helps people keep sane.