For without a measure of arrogance, how can one attempt the impossible?

My soul sees its equal in you.

You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?

Love is—a shade of what I feel.

Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me.

You have a beautiful laugh. Like the promise of tomorrow.

Love is a force unto itself, sayyidi. For love, people consider the unthinkable...and often achieve the impossible. I would not sneer at its power.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

In what world did you think you could get away with this?" Jalal seethed. "To my cousin? To my family?" His gleaming hilt continued its punishing onslaught.

For his children, he would move mountains.

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline.

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange. And I don't feel like a stranger. I have more friends in New York than Paris.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.