When I started, these [yoga] were very functional practices, as I said, productive to lose weight, or whatever, and now it has become a very spiritual kind of practice.

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.

I think nothing, at an objective level, is either right or wrong.

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.

What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.

I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

What I need to do is to just deepen my well. I'm just experiencing life now.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

In the initiative that we issued at the beginning of year 2013 we said every party with no exceptions as long as they give up their armaments.

My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.

Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?