The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had ever been less fine.

There is no such thing as evolution.