What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

I tend to be a bit of a dreamer.

There's a whole form of literature in India which talks about the quest for the perfect man by a woman, where every woman looks for a perfect man but only ends up with half that.