After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

I very much enjoy reading other writers' diaries, mainly because it makes me ask myself: Are they like you? How do they think?

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.