I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...

This, I suppose, is part of being human, learning from our losses how better to appreciate what is left in their wake.

Do you want the truth or fiction?

You remember it your way and I'll remember it mine.

Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.

If I drag it up from the bottom of the river, if I dig deep into that muddy floor and pull it up, even if I get most of it wrong, is it mine to tell?

The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the more it hides behind the masks it manufactures.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

U.S. has been trying to encourage Iraq to pass a law that would provide money and training and weapons for a Sunni national guard that could be effective in places like Ramadi, like Mosul

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

It kind of sounds like the noise a goat would make if you punched it in the face.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.