Between the beach and the big breaking waves about a quarter mile off was a stretch of bumpy, glistening reef, its usual blanket of water pulled back by a celestial hand.

Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not.

The sky seemed abruptly to have had enough of my dithering and dramatically lightened up around the glowing moon, which retreated like an aging sovereign before the rising sun.

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you’ve got to get up and take action.

Democracy is not the end product, but the means to the end, which is the enjoyment of human rights by all.

Well, nobody's perfect.

Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion at the level of everybody on the same track.

A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!

Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength.

Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, molded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies.