He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

If you fail to take positive charge of your life, your negative experiences wouldn't hesitate to turn your mind into their playground.

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

I think in times of crisis it's the artists' responsibility to dig a little deeper.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

The voice is nothing but beaten air.