The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.