However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin.

I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

Now don’t go thinking nice things about me. You’ll only be disappointed.

Going in the wrong direction but making really good time

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

The key is to figure out what you want out of life, not what you want out of your career.

This crowd is letting Kurt know that he sucks. Just in case he had forgotten.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

Hope is a critical thing. Whithout it, we are nothing. Hope shapes will. The will shapes the world.

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.