I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Create your inner peace to enjoy the endless beauties of life.

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

You can't trust girls. When I get a girlfriend I am not going to tell her where I live or work.

They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.