India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.