How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

Love is exactly as strong as life.