Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

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.

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.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

The slow rhythm of waiting.

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity it's inevitable.

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed. - Kaia Skyhawk

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.