Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

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

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

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.