In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.