History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

He was so good and honest. Why couldn't I love him instead?

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.

If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.