The coop is guarded from the inside.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.

Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.

Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.