"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."

“Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.”

“The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.”

“I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.”

Source : "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013.

“We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.”

“Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be forgotten that nature will correct the pendulum, so that is does not swing too far either way.”

“I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.”

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

“Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.”