I am not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization. •Ep23: Roadkill — Tôi không chắc về ngành công nghiệp ô tô. Với tốc độ phát triển của nó, đó có thể là bước lùi của nhân loại

To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself. •Ep21. A shade of Grey

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” •Ep21. A shade of Grey

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience •Ep23: Roadkill

It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt. •Ep24. Amplification

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it •Ep24. Amplification

You either live the life that is easy or you live the life that is difficult but appreciate it more.

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

My background is Indian, so I believe in a spiritual idea that there is another level, another layer or layers, if you will, above us. I believe that there are elements that allow things to be drawn together, a sort of energy.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

I wrote 'Wish U Were Here' for Cody Simpson, and he invited me to perform with him on tour and be in his music video. He was shy at first. I think it's the surfer boy in him that makes him so mellow.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.

The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.

As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge?

Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts they read anothers better than they can their own.

I used to care so much. I used to fight for this. I tried my hardest to hold on and keep you but you didn't want this as much as I did. I didn't lose you. Let's be honest, you lost me.

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.