Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.

