"God tells us men fucking men is a terrible thing, but a father offering his two daughters, vestal virgins no less, to…"

"One of the things that was obvious to me after I started getting upset about so many things was, I wasn’t upset at th…"

"I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic."

"I don't sit down to write something politically or to challenge stereotypes. Being who I am, almost everything I do w…"

"For years, I have been heralding the work of Rabih Alameddine, a Lebanese-American writer. His prose is gorgeous, his…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."