“Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.”

“Why, such is love's transgression.Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prestWith more of thine: this love that thou hast shownDoth add more grief to too much of mine own.Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:What is it else? a madness most discreet,A choking gall and a preserving sweet.Farewell, my coz.”

“Islam began as something strange and it has now returned to being something strange, so everyone should make sure to stick to the strangers, and to be amongst those who are called ‘insane’ and ‘ignorant’ and ‘stupid’ by the majority of mankind”

“Excellent! You almost look like a human being now!”

“I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.”

“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)”