It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

You can die from kitsch. And we're close to it.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

Opportunity is often dressed up in work clothes.

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there's something afterward.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Why are they so sad?” I asked. “Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.