Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.