"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe..." - Quote by Rumi

“My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”

“If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.”

“That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.”

“The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.”

“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.”

“Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.”

“Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself”

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”

“Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.”