Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

Wash your face before bed every night. Your skin will thank you - and your pillow too!

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'