But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

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.

Let us be loving, caring, and kind to everyone we meet in this beautiful journey called life. At the end nothing else matters.

I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

Commendation n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble but do not equal our own.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

The size of your miracle depends on the size of your problem.

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.