When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

One cannot rest except after steady practice.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.

The reason I know you don't love me, is because the day I walked out your door, you didn't stop me.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.