Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?

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."