India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

Only God can mend a broken heart.

It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.