Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward.

Your biggest mistake is thinking the other person gets affected or cares about how you feel. You think, your suffering, your feelings, and your pain is felt by the person you’re sinking for..

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

What you believe in makes you bold.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

The purpose of life is to live it.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

Our supreme objective is peace. Our supreme objective is to protect India's interests. We keep making effort toward that objective and sometimes our efforts are successful.