At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

I am graciously and joyfully living through each day.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

The difference between a free human and a human is not the word "free" it's the word "human", because humanity can never be caged with the chains of slavery.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Life's a party. Invite yourself.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

A thought come in my mind, have the people of Gujarat elected me to adorn my home? NO...if I want to adorn something. It will not be my home. It will be my Gujarat.

When did America forget that it's America?

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

I'm really good at building things that shoot, hurl, or throw stuff.