Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

The artist as an artist must be an anarchist

When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind.

When Trying To Achieve Your Dreams, Never Let Anyone or Anything Stand in Your Way

There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.

There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

I like to be provocative.

Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

Because I want to have my arm in good shape, I need to have my legs in good shape. Without a leg, there is no arm.

You never do any good being put on the defensive and staying there.