We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.

It dawned on me that no person is as poetically homesick as someone who has come to New York for the first time and glimpsed a small vestige of her home state.

The beauty on the inside, will determine the ugly on the outside.

She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.

Mystery, why so attractive to me?You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.

I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.

There is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.