It isn't you, ' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going.

It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy, " he said.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself, ' as though I had any idea who that might be.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

Doubt is part of the human drama. But don't let it consume you-let it motivate you.

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.