Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Hope in God makes a happy heart.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

Gratitude is not a fair weather virtue. True gratitude means appreciating your life no matter what the storms may bring. Is simply being alive gift enough for you to feel grateful?