Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

Success is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final.

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

The distracted person, too, can form habits.