The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time. - Ben Okri

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Wars are not fought on battlegrounds but in a space smaller than the head of a needle.

I mean we desperately wanted to be in love with something or other. We were lonely people. It seemed more sensible to fall in love with another person who also wanted to fall in love, than to love a chair or a cat or an idea.