When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

A good piece of art raises questions.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

He [Vishous] was all need, no ease.

What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.