Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually felt compelled to buy.

If you're gay and politically aware, you see politicians sacrifice American ideals in general and gays' lives in particular on the altars of "tolerance" and "diversity". You see politicians and media...

Imam al-Dhahabi (Allah have mercy on him) points out to the signs of having a sincere intention or otherwise, He mentions that the one who seeks knowledge for the sake of Allah Most High, then that kn...

When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish.

Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Shall I tell you who is unlawful for the Fire - or the one for whom the Fire is unlawful? It is unlawfu...

life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

i wonder what would happen if I started to believe it could be a possibility rather than blocking my focus by living in fear?

Integrity is an eternal virtue we should focus our mind on and not.

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to...

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one...

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Rain storms are destructive and renewing, I want to turn my bad days into rain storms.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional.

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.

Reasoning with senselessness will never build faith. Faith is strengthened when you stop collecting fragmented signs and questionable hunches, in order to build an acceptable reason for your wrong dec...