If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.