No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

The gift of an image is that it provides a place to watch your soul.

There are times when I feel over-rewarded for what I do for a living, especially when I compare what I can earn to what my brother earns as a firefighter.

Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.