I think the way the sun shines on you has nothing to do with the sun but everything to do with you.

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality.

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.

The longer the silence remains untouched the longer the miscommunication creates its own stories.

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.

I see the beauty in you, and the darkness. Both are brilliant.

all the parts of mei did not show youwere the onesi wanted you to notice.

I'm an open book in a closed room.

You can't break up with a soul mate.

Treat me like a rare first edition of your favourite novel.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.

I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.