There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

What is true today may be false tomorrow, and true again the day after tomorrow.

There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

It's kind of hard to outlive your past

Accidents can happen at any time.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

I have hurt people. It was unintentional, but nevertheless, there was damage done.