We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

My imagination is my temple where I meditate and pray to change human consciousness and awareness so that I may find peace.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his agenda was. Not as it played out. Obama was something other.

Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.