Michael Yacoub

“My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch
The language of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once…”
― William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

“I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti