The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each tremor of pleasure they would pay with an equal measure of pain. As though they knew that how far they went would be measured against how far they would be taken.