If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

There is not a simple gene pool entirely free of toxic waste.

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

Losing never come easy. First off, preserved the memories.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll stay with the show.

I talk kinda slow, especially for the Northeast, so it was a way to beat [would-be hecklers] to the punch.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time