One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.

Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!

...you influenced me, in a way in which no one else did.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

Today, use your words to lift up and bless the people around you.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.