Sometimes people get angry and do things they shouldn't. Things they regret.

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

Some leaders are born women.

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand.

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Things happen and you live and you learn.

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.