I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.