“They smell your breathLest you have said: I love you,They smell your heart:These are strange times, my dear.From the poem Strange Times, My Dear, in the PEN Anthology of Contemporary Literature”

“I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.”

“ your life under the shade of faith was a continuous love story . Worship and religion in their true essence are nothing but love. ”

“You smell like a bar," he said.I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem.”

“If you want Allah to be persistent in granting you the thing you love, then be persistent in doing the things he loves.”

“The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.”

“My queen? You have a strange look in your eyes. Are you unwell?I was just... remembering.”