There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

There are consequence every action, whether evil or good.

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

I'd much rather be the oddball out than kind of create something of myself that I'm not proud of.