"There is generally, therefore, an inverse ratio between the worship of goddesses and the granting of rights to human …"

"As the Hindu gods are "immortal" only in a very particular sense---for they are born and they die---they experience m…"

"There was an Indian edition of most of my books, but it didn't make much of a splash."

"I've always felt like I haven't given anything back to India after all that she had given me, just soaked up all the …"

"My mother had rubbings from the temple at Angkor Watt on the walls-that was the first thing that interested me. But i…"

"That's what really interested me about India, the religious aspect-and the extravagance of it. There was so much of i…"

"That was the other thing that drew me to India-the language. In high school my Latin teacher taught me Greek unoffici…"

"The culture-its excess-really suited me. I always liked Indian miniature painting much more than Renaissance painting…"

"I was raised deeply imbued with my parents' atheism. The thought of really, seriously practicing any religion doesn't…"

"The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think…Throughout the Mahabharata … Krishna goads human bein…"