How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

If your heart has been broken nine times, muster the courage to love again for the tenth.

I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

She lied to me today, " Archie said."A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

That game gave us a lot of confidence and the fans something to cheer for.

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.

I was once dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection so I told her to bake me some bread.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

I think there are always going to be fanatics and charismatic extremists who are going to be able to draw a following.