I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

A single conversation can change things.

What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.

When you follow your heart you allow miraculous possibilities to unfold.

This practice of yoga is to remove the weeds from the body so that the garden can grow.

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.