There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure.

I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

that a child is not an event, alleged or otherwise, a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this, sum rather than division, a living promissory note.

The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

I've never been good at giving advice. The only advice I ever gave people was to find something that you are passionate about. But I hate giving advice, because, who am I? I'm just a girl.

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the words.

The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.