Trust is the action of faith.

If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.

You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

It is either Christ or chaos.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

I don't see outside of me.

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.