Kareem Nazir: All men die, my friend. But Allah says its what we do before we die, that counts.

I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.

Bassam: Feeling hydrated? Never had a bath before. [shakes the water off] Lost 2 pounds in dirt alone.

You cannot seek Destruction and return unscathed.

The vagrant moon trailed through the town and I tagged along, nurturing within me unfulfillable dreams and dissonant songs.

I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

I was already singing by the time I was six years old. My neighbors would ask me to sing at festivities—marriages, baptisms, etc.—and they would give me presents. In 1973 [when I was 15], I went to the Institute for the Young Blind in Mali to learn Braille. When I was there I taught other people how to sing and dance.

Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this [complexity] possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really.

I didn't ask to be secretary of balloon doggies, the balloon doggies demanded it!

Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.

One included all, and all were contained in one.

No, I didn't have time to take photos, I had young children, all that...

You know the story of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The red queen has to run faster and faster to keep still where she is. That is exactly what you are all doing. running faster and faster. But you are not moving anywhere.