“Are we going to reach a point where we say LOL instead of actually laughing?”

“You are insistent, calling again. You want me to tell you the story of Scheherazade, who rocks the sad king on her knees as she sings him tales from wonderland. Yet you know that I am not Scheherazade, and that one of the world's greatest wonders is that I am unable to enter my country or pass through the region around it.”

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”

“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That's how we survive.”

“If we are to become friends I must laugh the way I really do, LOL is not my thing.”

“I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”

“We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”