If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Is birth always a fall?

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.