Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

I was not a writer to begin with; I was a listener.

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

You don't love Buck. If you did, you'd have four kids by now. Wouldn't you? Now wouldn't you? A woman like you...

Whatever man seeks lies in his heart of love.

If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.

True nirvana will come when we enlighten the world of awareness and higher consciousness.

Relish what is good and expedient.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Life is greater than you have ever known it.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave

I'm addicted. I'm addicted to golf.