Friend to God

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.”
― Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“The new Islamic science has been fathered by the global resurgence of orthodoxy in Muslim countries; it is not peculiar to Pakistan by any means. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia are also particularly active centres. However, it is not confined by national boundaries and is particularly to be found amongst immigrants settled in the West. It evidently provides a form of psychological defence against the continuous battering by modern science in its many manifestations. For this reason, one must not expect the phenomenon to disappear in the decades to come.”
― Pervez Hoodbhoy, Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality