The activation or survival of happiness in one's mind doesn't depend on external things. All that it needs are some consistent positive interpretations of your life and its experiences.

Ey binamaz diye beni haktan uzak görenSığmaz senin hayaline mihrab-ı minberim Sen sade beş vakitte ararsın ilahını, Ben her zaman onunla emin ol beraberim.

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro's question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?

The young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herself

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.