If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

Kaku, the aamti is excellent. Did you put ghee in the daal when it was boiling?

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.]

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

You cannot accurately remember color.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.