My main hope for myself is to be where I am..

Whoever makes sujood to Allah properly, will never make sujood to the duniya..

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

Always destroy what is in you..

And see she flies, and she is everywhere..

Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes ha….

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change..

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved..

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

The only thing power respects, is power..

Better alone than badly accompanied..

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally..

And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go..

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained..

Anger is a good motivator..

Everybody got their something..

Off with the old and on with the new and never a second's thought between..

I've never been a good hitter..