Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.

Religion would have us believe that immortality is reserved for the gods. We remain skeptical.

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

Habits form a second nature.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

Everything connects to everything; therefore, as we change, the world cannot but change with us.

The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.