Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

A writer is never alone

Every man's memory is his private literature.

One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.

Beware the man who only has one gun. He probably knows how to use it!

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.