Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.

I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.