Saying of the ProphetThe BequestI have nothing to leave you except my family.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

It's just, there's something compelling about very beautiful people. Especially strong-jawed men with stubble and intense eyes. You fall under their spell and believe anything they say.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall.

I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.