"That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation."

"Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies."

"One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality."

"You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going."

"The national team comes before everything."

"No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen."

"I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours."

"I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist."