In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

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

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?