Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.--from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

No one can share in your sorrow.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.

I'm not going to say who looks the most beautiful, but it's clear. It's Jared Leto. I mean, he's the prettiest. Boy is he pretty

I keep fit as much as I can.

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.