One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

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

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us.

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.