"Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms."

“In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.”

Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.21

“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”

Source : Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (1997). “Auschwitz and After”, p.267, Yale University Press

“Some people say I’m a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we’re going to have to let you go'.”

“I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.”

“I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed's dictum, 'A journey is a fragment of Hell.'”

“I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

“I am very pro law enforcement.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.”