Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

Practice random acts of kindness... and watch Mom!

Above all, India is the land of religion.

And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.