“I love the sea because it is boundless.”

“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.”

“The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell...So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.”

“I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.”

“For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?”

“I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.”

“I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.”