The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

Books are boring, " James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown, " I offered.

In a fallacious world where we live

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

I think any actor that says 'I never watch my films' is a liar because you have to watch it at least once and also you're going to watch it when you're doing your ADR.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers.

Dreams are reality waiting to happen