Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries.

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.