Arundhati Roy Thoughts

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.