I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.