Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

Teaching:One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.Saying of the Prophet

I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.