He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

i want so much to touch youwhere my hands cannot.

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.

A good leader is not elected, he is appointed.

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste, ” I said.

A giant python was discovered in Florida. Spooky news for a state that derives half it's income from a giant mouse.

To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult so let's avoid him.'

The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.

You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme.

Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.

The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.