There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.