The earth shall be left to no one.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

I am the drop that contains the ocean

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

To love the world is to be afflicted.

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

Imagine a brilliant rose of pure love in your heart. Next, see a twinkling flower within the hearts of all you meet.

We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it preach about it or pray about it but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us then it will not be.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to support it and promote it.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.