But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.