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

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will be more bullying. There will not be less bullying. If you appease the bully, you make sure that he will bully you some more. Not less. It doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem worse.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

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.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.