"My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me."

“The best way to experience the power of fundamental choices is to make them.”

“I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.”

Source : "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

“Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.”

“If one is writing in a way that is questioning, or even raising questions about how we are supposed to negotiate the world - even if it is about the self, or love, or how human beings relate - I do think that has a certain subversiveness to it. Even if it's not on a geopolitical level.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“It will afford me unfeigned satisfaction if my kingdom can add its quota toward the successful accomplishment of the most important astronomical observation of the present century and assist, however humbly, the enlightened nations of the earth in these costly enterprises .”

“Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups”

Source : Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.54, Seal Press

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.