Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

There has been no warming over 18 years.

The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.

Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.