But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and complex an act a murder can actually be, and not necessarily attributable to one dramatic motive.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

Never allow the blessings in your life to go consciously and subconsciously unnoticed, no matter how small they are.

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country.

Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.