Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.