Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

Each day has a color, a smell.

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.

Our actions let us walk and live. Our imaginations let us fly. So be action oriented and never forget to dream.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

The world is run by C students

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.