The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
The moment you start building or doing stuff beyond your knowledge, soon you will end up by demanding time.
Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.
Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my sanity.
People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!
...how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor.
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
Genuineness is often sacrificed in order to showcase the author's control over the form and subject matter, the end result technically sound but emotionally cold.
When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.
Silence is where my demons lurk, taunting me endlessly day after day until the end of time...yet still I wait, revelling in their company...
