I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

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.

Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.