“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

“Cos if it's encyclopedias we've got enough, like, information... and if it's God, you've got the wrong house.”

“It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.”

“We are split people. For myself, half of me wishes to sit quietly with legs crossed, letting the things that are beyond my control wash over me. But the other half wants to fight a holy war. Jihad!...”

“When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.”

“More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.”

“Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minu...”

“Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to p...”

“A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.”