Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.

This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.