Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.

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!

Even if the world is cruel, even if all I have is loneliness, I’ll still live with everything I’ve got. Even if this emotion is all I have, I’ll keep struggling.

We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.