One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

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.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.