Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

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 answer to most prayers is no.

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

Choose, but don't want.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

The quality of mercy is not strained