So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so but behind locked doors there are usually high emotions running.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.