"It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan."

“Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.”

“All of which raises the question – your task, burden, privilege, call it what you like – a question which men and women, great and not-so of every color, creed and sexual persuasion have asked since they first had the language to do so, and probably before: Does Anything I Do Matter?”

“An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.”

“Understand is not the word; you are right, you can never really 'understand' about someone, anyone, even yourself. It is best to believe in them as human; feel that they are alive like you and need warmth, concern.”

Source : Rudy Wiebe (2011). “The Blue Mountains of China”, p.325, New Canadian Library

“Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.”

“Fall in love so madly that every leaf whispers words of love to your lover. Every raindrop explodes with only one word as it hits the Earth.”

“The words you say to yourself create your self image.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2003). “Fearless Loving”, p.49, Penguin

“I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.”

Source : Robert Creeley (2006). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005”, p.495, Univ of California Press