“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”

One handles truths like dynamite.

I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.

The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you’re in, it’s a great compliment.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

There are a lot of great athletes who stop working out, and they get out of shape like everybody else in their 30s and 40s.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

I like heist movies. I like action movies that set all the elements into one and a chance to do something that comes from a great stable of writing.