In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.

Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.

A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul.

All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

I think it is important to know when to be hard on yourself and when to let things go, but always keep going.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.