Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

Time heals even the deepest wounds.

I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

You are not only the solar spectrum with the seven luminous colours, but the sun himself, that illumines, warms, and revivifies! This is what you are, and I am the lowly woman that adores you.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.