There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Unfortunately a lot of people live like they are in a dream

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine.

Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.

These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.

You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.

I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.