"The darkest nights often reveal that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

"There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business."

"Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists."