How alive am I willing to be?

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.

Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.