Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

With yoga, you go back to your source to bloom again with joy and inner peace.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.