One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.