...Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you...

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

One who believes, as I do, that the free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism, as much as to the Church of Rome.

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.