I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

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.

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.

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.

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it's easier if you've got company.

It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

We wondered why when a child laughed, he belonged to Daddy, and when he had a sagging diaper that smelled like a landfill, 'He wants his mother.'

Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

Good men are bad men's instructors, And bad men are good men's materials.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him