"It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

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“Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?”
“Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.”
“Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.”
“Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.”
“I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.”
“The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.”
“I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.”

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