“O Allah, I offer my apology to You for every hungry stomach and unclothed body, but I own nothing in this world except what is on my back and in my stomach.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”

“My heart was beating. I got sick in my stomach and my hands were sweating — everything you feel when you are under pressure. I've been nervous before, but nothing like this.”

“What does an enamored butterfly say? «Feels like I have humans in my stomach.»”

“You are the pinch in my heart. The catch in my breath. The reason my stomach tumbles…”

“Einstein, my upset stomach hates your theory — it almost hates you yourself! How am I to provide for my students? What am I to answer to the philosophers?”

“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”

“These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with old food, these bruised
and swollen ankles,
my darkening brain,
they are nothing.
I am the same boy
my mother used to kiss.”

“Cold comfort to fill their hungry stomach.”

“There was nothing left between me and the void. I must have spent several minutes lying on my stomach with my eyes closed to resist its almost invincible attraction.”