There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.