“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”

“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”

“My life may not be something special
But it's never been lived before.”

“It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.”

“If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.”

“Indian contemporary artists have not come to this standard. So I feel happy that I could present something to them. My work has a different meaning and something like this has never been done by any other Indian artist.”

“It didn’t feel, at that moment, like I was getting into something over my head. It never does, before you take the leap.”

“The surrender of something attained heroically and at great cost — something to which the well-being of entire generations has been sacrificed — is far more dangerous to a government than not having it to begin with.”

“To me, one of the best things in the world is that sublime moment when a writer, artist, or musician manages to express something you’ve always felt but never articulated, or at least never quite so beautifully.”