“Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)”

“...each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone”

“A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.”

“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”

“A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.”

“Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.”

“Because it is the lot of mothers to remember what no one else cares to, Mrs. Dutta thinks. To tell them over and over until they are lodged, perforce, in family lore. We are the keepers of the heart's dusty corners.”