People can be slave-ships in shoes.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

That’s what seems the most sad to me—that neither of them even think there’s a possibility they can be together.

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

I heard that women are attracted to bad boys, so every once in a while, I throw a recyclable into the regular garbage.

A functioning police state needs no police.