Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

I was here for a reason. There was something I was meant not simply to be, but to do- and it wasn't to run or hide or give up the minute things seemed terrifying and impossible.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.

What happened to fun?" "Our insurance doesn't cover it!

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I've never read one book about my father.