“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”

“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”

“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in search of the bare means of subsistence" Charles dickens, american notes”

“نقش: ” تستطيع أن تعرف أن أطفالك كبروا عندما يتوقفون عن سؤالك عن كيفية مجيئهم إلى الحياة ويرفضون إخبارك إلى أين هم ذاهبون !!(ب. ج. أورروك )You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going !”