“The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.”

“Well… sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.”

“Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.”

“What we call inspiration in poetry is usually a visitation of words and rhythms rather than ideas.”

“Accessibility on the part of rulers ends by inspiring love rather than respect, and love evaporates at first sign of trouble.”

“Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. "Well… sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor”

“A dignified man prefers to be feared and respected rather than being loved”

“She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.”

“Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”

“The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.”