"My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things."

“We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.”

“Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.”

“Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.”

“The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see the effect his performance had on his audience. The noise of their laughter roared like the sea in his ears. He wanted it louder and louder; he wanted them to drown out the war with their laughter. If the could should loud enough, they might bring the world back to its senses; they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.”

“Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.14, Faber & Faber

“What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!”

“Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.”

“Are we prepared to leave our comfort zones to reach a better place?”