Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

We can't run from who we are; our destiny chooses us.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

He didn't pick her

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.