One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.
Gods you avoid won't hurt you.
Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.
Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.
To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.