Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

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

Relax. Refresh. Renew. Play. Sing. Laugh. Enjoy. Forgive. Dance. Love. Hug. Share. Kiss. Create. Explore. Hope. Listen. Dare. Trust. Dream. Learn. TODAY!

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.