Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

I still think that the point of reference for every Indian when he is in doubt on any political or social issue is to say, "What would [Mahatma] Gandhi have done under the circumstances?" I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right. He meant more to me than any of my gurus.

[Sex] is of real interest to every human being and so why gloss over it, and it's fun, it's interesting, it has so many dimensions.

I've had very little sex. I like my Scotch, but I've never been drunk.

I am alone, but never lonely. You have always books around you.

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give back to the earth.