I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Time itself made all things rare.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

God never loses sight of the treasure which He has placed in our earthen vessels.

It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.

To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.

Sharon Stone has the kind of face I'd leave my wife for. Since I'm not married, I'll have to leave someone else's wife.

Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.

I'm not a natural joiner.

For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.