Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

... keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

I love to act and that's sort of my first love. That's what I started out doing.