Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated. ”

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy. ”

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam! ”

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before. ”

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet. ”

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do. ”

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.' ”

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work. ”

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter. ”

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do. ”