Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

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.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

For a man to think he can fulfil his destiny without a woman is a misunderstanding, a miscalculation; it is reckless and folly. Certainly a woman is not everthing, but everything depends on her.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.