You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

I've been screwed and sued and tattooed, and I'm still standin' here in front of you.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.

And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

When a man who looks like Yoda hands you a prophecy, you have to respond.