How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

Friends are the support bras of life.

And joy is always a promise.

The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it or you will never know what's beyond it.

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.