Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.

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.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

Don't you think its quite weird for Prince Harry, getting really stoned and seeing your grans face appearing on your money.

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.

We are Hollywood. We're entertainment, and that's what the World Wrestling Federation is all about.