Certainly seems it when she half-turns in his arms and he just leans right down into her and kisses and kisses. Oh, how syrupy-slow his kisses are. She could live in those warm, wet pulls.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.

So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.

I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.