The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

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 first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

The world surrenders to an enlightened mind.The stars surrender to a joyful heart. The universe surrenders to a loving soul.

Every spell is a journey.

Actor-manager - one to whom the part is greater than the whole.

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

You must love beyond the difference of all religions, all nations, and all races. You are originally one.