"U for Unilateralis Cordyceps. The fungus enters an ant's body through its respiration. It invades it's brain and changes how it perceives smell, because ants do everything they do from their smell of pheromones, right? So this microscopic little fungal spore, then makes the ant climb up the stem of a plant and bite hard on a leaf, with an abnormal force. The fungus then kills the ant, and continues to grow, leaving the ant's exoskeleton intact. So, a small fungus drives an ant around as a vehicle, uses it as food and shelter and then as the ultimate monument to itself. And when the fungus is ready to reproduce, its fruiting bodies grow from the ant's head and rupture releasing the spores, letting the wind carry them to more unsuspecting food. There, our entire idea of free will down the bin."

"It gives me some kicks though, to know that, a part of me was a part of an animal once, a flame, a star. A part will become mineral, flow in a plant, sprout in a fruit, get pecked by a bird. Every atom of my body will be recycled by the universe. You think you are a person but you are a colony. A microcosm which has ten times more bacteria in its body...than it has human cells."

"We invent God, soul... heaven, afterlife...even life-imitating technology, all sorts of transcendence to cope with the idea of an absolute end. And then, we die for an idea that promises us some sort of immortality."

"The most significant film to have come out of India in a long time."

"Look into your own religion. There's constant reference to relativity. Your ancients, they were masters of understanding that there is no one ultimate rule book for all situations. The woman churning curd into butter, she has to pull one end of the rope and let the other end go, otherwise the rope will break. Contradictions and polarities are two ends of the same rope. You can pull one end and let the other end go."

"Toh aapne kaunse jhande gaad diye! Kaunsi duniya badal daali? Desh aazadi ke liye lad raha tha toh aap maa ko padosiyon ke yahan chhod kar chali jaati thi gaaon gaaon logon ko batane ke liye - condom pehno condom pehno! Hogayi kranti? Hogayi samajh seva? aap ke kaam se kuch bhi farak padha hota toh yeh sawa sau karod kahan se aa jate!"

"Aapke issi swabhav ki wajah se maa tang aa gayi thi. Bade bade logon ki khokhli baaton se dur bhaag jana chahti thi. Apni zindagi kissi bade udeshya ke liye de dena badi bhaari apeksha hai… Kissi se bhi!"

"Mein agyani hun, gawar hun yeh kahena ek baat hai par mein sab kuch paise ke liye karta hun yeh kahogi toh chubhe ga nahi mujhe?"

"Acha aap batao, zindagi mein kya chahiye? Khushiyan? Aur thodi bahut manavta honi chahiye. Itna kya kaafi nahi hai?"

"It's some sort of a fungi master plan. Looks like a collective mind dispersed over a vast landscape. This has always made me wonder... if survival has flourished so well at a single cell level, why the need to evolve to more complex forms? - Maybe, to be able to ask questions like that? - Well according to Spore, the objective is to colonize outer space. Life at a single cell level realizes that the planet won't be enough someday, and it will need to move onto others. - Wow. Who is Spore? - It's a video game."

"Monks are supposed to be celibate, then why this much intellectual masturbation in the first place?"

"One single small fungus spore does that to an ant. You have trillions of bacteria in your body. How do you know where you end, and where your environment begins."

"Mr. Sahai. . . light up the darkness."

"I know now that there is God... He is not in the holy spirit we pray to... He isn't written about in religious texts.... He is someone who is part of our lives... Whom we live for ... Because of whom we live..."

"[To Michelle] Your world is not black."