People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

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

What you were is forever who you are.

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

One minute you've got a lucky star watching over you and the next instant it's done a bunk.

Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.