The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah.

Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.

I’ll be strong for you. Live me, baby. Live for me. Please.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

I can move objects with my mind, if I use my hands.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.