History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.