I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year.