“There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.”

“Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like ca...”

“Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purg...”

“Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.”

“Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortabl...”

“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”

“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”

“Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.”

“Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)”

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”