The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

I am joyfully one with all existence.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Time is a perishable commodity.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have a ton of researchers and they don't get credited in the book.

I've been 6'4'' since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.