There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

Immortal and indestructible, surrounds all and directs all.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

I tasted life.

Even a fool gets to be young once.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

The square root of nothing.

I was born in a small clapboard house on an island, but I also have certain privileges that I didn't have when I was on the island. So that dichotomy again is actually really crucial.