Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am. '
I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
Sexual intercourse began in 1963. . . Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles first LP
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it. I come from a background where I was never told that I couldn't do something, so I'm very stubborn. I don't know if I believe in fate or destiny, but it kind of feels that way sometimes.
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market.
An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?