I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.