Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Work hard and meticulously. When in trouble, look closely at a text that is a good example of what you're trying to do. And be patient.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.

if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace".

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.