I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

It's all fun and games until somebody dies.

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

Every day brings new choices.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.