How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice, and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

In a world of limitations, only a fool would hesitate to touch the infinite.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do no be too eager to deal out death in judgment.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

You can't spell believe without a lie in the middle.

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all.

I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.