Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

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

Sex is the instrument and love the music.

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.