“Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disappointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel's milk!”

“When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.”

“Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."”

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

“Is it Chomsky’s intellectual competence which deserts him when he criticizes the powerful, or is it the willingness of Chomsky’s critics to perceive that competence which deserts them?”

“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”

“Anger is really disappointed hope.”

“endless hope, endless disappointment.”

“Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu”

“Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.”