You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you...

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then?

Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

Keeping ‘pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).

Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope.

Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.

Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

I think that talent, good songwriting and passion, will always outlast hype.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.