The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

I was forgetting that an artist also just stares at a piece of paper or canvas all day. It somehow never occurred to me to connect these two diverse creative modes.

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.

Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making.