Everyone fights an American war.

Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.

She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Hope is only the love of life.

A pretty face and a beautiful body can capture my attention, But only a beautiful and creative mind can hold it

Heaven will happen someday, but let's not wait. Heaven can start now.

I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property you have occupied if you can. In the end, that will be worth quite a bit of money.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

It's the strange world.' 'The strangest.