Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.
Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.
It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of something infinite, or it feels like it is, anyway, which is the same thing to us. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.
There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.
For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.