Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Staying away from news channels, print, and social media makes one realize, that the world actually is a beautiful place to live.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.