Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.

When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

The best way to protect evil, to deny it existence.

Perfectionists are neurotic people. The world is perfectly beautiful in its imperfection.

The activation or survival of happiness in one's mind doesn't depend on external things. All that it needs are some consistent positive interpretations of your life and its experiences.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.