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.

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

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

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

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.

The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.