I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.