Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

I would rather have 100,000 fans for a lifetime than a million for a couple years.

Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.

I'm in a state of learning, and I don't have any set-in-stone ideas about what shows or even what eras I want to pursue.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.