I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

There is no samkit (vision with right belief that I am Pure Soul) where there are kashays [anger, pride, deceit and greed], and where there are no kashays, there is samkit (self realization).

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Happiness is spending time with the one you love without a worry or a care.

In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.

We never cherish what we've got until the day it's gone.

I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

The literary world is more time-traveling than the art world, and novelty is much more important in art than it is in writing.

All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.