He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

... anyone who really believed what they were saying could get it said in a lot fewer words.

History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.

Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!

Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

New York is such an awful place. No wonder it's so crowded. No wonder it's almost impossible to leave.

I amused myself playing with the journalists.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

A supreme deity would no more gift us with intellect and expect us to forsake it in moments of bafflement, than He would fashion us eyes to see and bid us shut them to the stars

I call my balls the bush twins.