Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

In any theological struggle, the first thousand years are always the bitterest.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life

Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they too, fade away.

I'm allergic to stupidity.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.