At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...

i’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i don’t.

Be daring to push your ideas forward.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects

Woman at Point Zero I wrote during the '70s in Arabic. It came in English in '82. So, almost ten years' difference between the Arabic and the English.

It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you.