I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.