Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

We forgive so long as we love.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;Round and round they sped.I was disturbed at this;I accosted the man."It is futile," I said,"You can never-""You lie," he cried,And ran on.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.