The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Viewing movies in very slow motion, looking for synchrony, one realizes that what we know as dance is really a slowed-down, stylized version of what human beings do whenever they interact.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

I spend these days in confusion, trying my best to fathom the significance of that shade.... Trying to fathom the suitable answers to my ambiguities, if they can be called as such." - Basil

You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

In The Interestings I wanted to write about what happens to talent over time. In some people talent blooms, in others it falls away.

There's something I'm afraid to say to you too early, but I'd be a fool to wait too late.