When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.
My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.
The party don't stop, til the casket drop.
I'm not trying to prove how Mexican I am or how American I am. I'm proud to be both.
Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.
Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.