An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

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

It is better to live ready than to get ready!

You have to create the life you want.

If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.

We each need to become our own hero.

I think the Dudleys are mad at us, well, because we're beautiful!

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.