Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Ibn Mas'ud said that Allah's Messenger said: Abusing a Muslim is sinful and fighting with his tantamount to Kufr. Bukhari Muslim

Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November morning!

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.

Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.