What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?

Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

But he’s an untouchable, Shirin.’ ‘He’s my Untouchable Prince Charming, then. Only I am allowed to touch him.

There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

What am I doing here, Reena? Why am I dancing to the tunes of that old hag?’‘You are saving your family.

Sometimes, it is easier to leave things as they are, rather than to fight, go against the flow.

Every family has secrets, Reena, and they’re there for a reason.

I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

You put cow dung on my face?’ ‘Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

What better hiding place than an old, woodlice-ridden album of photographs!

It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

With real relationship within, you are as delicateness really listening.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

I love Texas because Texas is future-oriented, because Texans think anything is possible. Texans think big

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy