Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

stealing chocolates

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

Thats what I crave that diversity.