If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.

WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.

Much more than memoir; it's history.

Christmas is the alcoholidays

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.