He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

It is true that you may have lost some time in the past. You may have allowed your life melt away with your time, but the good news is that you still have the future.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

Sunset is so marvellous that even the sun itself watches it every day in the reflections of the infinite oceans!