I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they're both amazing ways to understand human nature.

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.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)