The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

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

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

We are surrounded by story.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

Competition is pretty much the essence of everything, it gives humans drive.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short. It's always been down to my waist. I can't hide behind my hair any more

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.