He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

I look for beauty every day and find it everywhere. My bliss in enhanced!

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

We must send a message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced.

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

I love my little sister to death

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.