"I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse."

“I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.”

“In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.”

“History is not what happened but what is written down”

“It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism,”

Source : "Atheist finds 'God' after 50 years" by Laura Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

“I was an English major in college!”

“When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.”

“I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.”

“Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.”