Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.
When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.
Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.
You know what I would do? I would remake The Wizard of Oz with Robin Williams, and that's it. Just let him do the whole dang thing by himself.
Islam has always been a part of America's story. . . and since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.