If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.

We Indians really should be better liars, considering how often we've been lied to.