My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

There are no obstacles for lovers.

Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.