we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

You never know how a good quest is going to end.

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into... rhetoric and plot.