Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

Not all tear ducts worked the same. People, as Firdaus learned, cried the hardest when experiencing mixed emotions.

Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

There is no greater monster than reason.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

You live and you learn.

As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.

I was working in theater, so I didn't get to go to my prom.

Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.