But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

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.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

When one matures in life is when one knows we never grow up

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.

She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside.

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

Emotion is changed by motion.