It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.

Culture is always about politics in the end.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.

Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.

I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.