"I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."

“Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.”

“Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.”

“I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.”

“Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws.”

“Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.”

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

“Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.”

“Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it’s terrifying to people and they think you’re a monster.”

“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.