The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.