In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

Claire, if you don’t move, I will have served two tours of duty only to die in this bed.

To Sachin, the man we all want to be.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

All those moments spent in concetration will give you a terrific strength and with that strength you will cut aside all illusions.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

We have the deepest and most liquid capital markets in the world.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.