Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said "Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours."