I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

Leaders walk their talks. They don’t give theories that do not work. They have clarity into their dreams and insight into their directions!

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly.

Let us together serve the Nation. If each citizen takes one step forward, the country takes 125 crore steps forward.