Butterfly Mosque Quotes

#1. When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.

Scott Haze

#2. Your stupidity is appalling!"
"Most stupidity is!

Charles M. Schulz

#3. Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Near the end of the story, at the police station, Murin diagnoses Ordynov's illness as the sad result of "too much book learning,

Robert Mann

#5. I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

Jeff Bridges

#6. Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

Paul Eldridge

#7. Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Leon Bloy

#8. The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.

Taiye Selasi

#9. I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

Woody Allen

#10. The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Friedrich Schiller

#11. Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#12. 'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

G. Willow Wilson