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.

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.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

Yet whenever I think of light, I’m always reminded of her.

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

You can't have a laugh track that sort of tells the audience when to laugh and, you know, it's difficult to find those moments.

Men often marry their mothers.

Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

The first myth of management is that it exists.