There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

The mind is created when the universal consciousness conforms to societal consciousness.

Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story.

There is nothing quite so terrifying as a mad sheep.

I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself.

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

The Navajos have a saying they live by: 'A land where there is time enough and room enough.' I want that, too.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!