“Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.”

“Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”

“A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot.”

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

“You don’t draw, and I don’t breathe. Not so much like last year”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”

“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”

“…whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.”

“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”

“No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].”