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.

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.

Long as I can spell G-o-d I got somebody along.

This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.