A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

A heart of gold is more precious than a necklace of diamonds.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.

One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.