Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.