I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

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

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.