Ziyah Karmali Quotes & Sayings

One of the tenants here has a tumor on his face. It covers most of his right eye. Where I come from, it would have been treated and removed. So I find myself thinking, what if I get sick? Something as simple as appendicitis could kill me. I've had all the shots, but what happens when the vaccines wear off? As for the charm and innocence I hoped to find -- it exists, it really does, but consider what it's buried in. Racism. Misogyny and homophobia so absolute as to be nearly universal. — Robert Charles Wilson

She is bizarre, fantastic, nervous, like someone in a high fever. Her beauty drowned me. As I sat before her, I felt I would do anything she asked of me. Henry suddenly faded. She was color and brilliance and strangeness. By the end of the evening I had extricated myself from her power. She killed my admiration by her talk. Her talk. The enormous ego, false, weak, posturing. She — Anais Nin

I like incongruity. — Tana French

Young. Old. Just Words. — George Burns

That of which we are not aware, owns us. — James Hollis

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power. — Megan Whalen Turner

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert

Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know ... Occult is not science. Occult is just technology. — Jaggi Vasudev