There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up

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.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

Colorado's majestic landscapes are one of our most valuable assets, and it's important that we work to preserve these treasures.

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.