Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something.

Being true to yourself it always the right thing to do.

Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.