For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions?

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Money is what you get in exchange with time invested

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships.

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

Do not tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you have traveled, and I will know how educated you are.

You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th.