Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.