A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

As individuals express their life, so they are.

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.