The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they don't really have work. The chances of them making a decent life for themselves, of making a family, living in a kind of decent, happy way, are very, very remote. It's very hard for them to ever even have that as a dream, so when people are that deprived of the ordinary hope of human beings, it creates anger. And that anger can be channeled by unscrupulous persons, whether secular or religious leaders, and there's been a lot of that.

I will come back to India - so deal with it.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]