For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

There is nothing like a train journey for reflection.

Death hath a fairer fame than a life of toil.

And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.

And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

I'm misrepresented as a scary person. I'm not. It's all about my size and my eyebrows.

Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.