These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!