After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say--unless you insist on saying it.

Teaching is the best way to learn.

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.

Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

The one endorsement that makes the most difference is from the constituents in the district.