We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

It is every Muslim's duty to fight those of a different belief until only Allah is worshipped around the world. Everybody has the opportunity to accept Allah and to change to the right path.

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

Doubt is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. Once you rise above doubt, you are on your way to success.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.