Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.

Whoever angers you, masters you.

I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.

Results! Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.