“I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he d...” — Will Self Quote

“I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.”

“What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!”

“Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.”

“There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love.”

“Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.”

“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”