You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Haste is from the Devil.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaFlattery:One of the most promising of businesses: always brisk.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool

A fighter has to know fear.

I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

You cannot have a learning organisation without a shared vision...A shared vision provides a compass to keep learning on course when stress develops.

It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.