An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading.

A fan is like the thighs of a woman: It opens and closes. A good fan opens with a flick of the wrist. It produces its own weather---a breeze not so strong as to muss the hair.

Saints guide people on the path of religion [dharma] and the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] grants ‘liberation’ (moksha).

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. The elephant hauls himself from the mud. In the same way drag yourself out of your sloth.

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.