“All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.”

“How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.”

“Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning wa...”

“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”

“Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.”

“But whatever any of them thought one thing was always certain: even though they suffered and had to struggle at times to bring meaning and even the most basic dignity into their existence and even ...”

“Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (...”

“Pull a thread here and youll find its attached to the rest of the world.”

“Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of tim...”

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories, we too easily oppose one another.”

“There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book tak...”

“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”