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“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
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“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”
Source : Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (1997). “Auschwitz and After”, p.267, Yale University Press
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“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'.”
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“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.”
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“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.'”
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“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. 
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“I am very pro law enforcement.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it’s habited.”
