If the character has the motivation to dance round trees, then I will dance round trees. If the motivation is strong enough, then I'll fly to the moon.

90 percent of Indian cinema is crap

The single most instinctive evil is discrimination

I wonder if I should believe what she says. But when you're not strong in yourself, anyone can tell you anything and you'll fall for it.

Sow good seeds for a good yield.

Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.