Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

When someone you love has died, there is a certain grace period during which you can get away with murder. Not literal murder, but pretty much anything else.

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good.

Get away from my house and all its rooms that echo, all the rooms I don't enter anymore.

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.

But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

But I don't feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

Joy comes from using your potential.

India is a country for all but not a country for sale. Greedy politicians and greedy businessmen should aware of it.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

I'll do business with anyone, but I'll only go sailing with gentlemen.

The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

I ain't going to bump no more with no big fat woman.

A soul exasperated in ills, falls out With everything, its friend, itself.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.