Absent opens a door to a view of Iraqi life we have seldom seen. With a compassionate eye Khedairi explores a community, damaged by wars and sanctions, struggling for survival.

I don't love you anymore ... It comes down to that, I think.

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

This was all very early on, there was no romance between them then,[Adolf] Hitler was living with Geli Raubal and made a very big display over her, that she was his great love and so forth.

A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.

I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.