Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.