I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.

I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

There's already a lot of self-exculpatory history being written. Right across the board. And it's my task to make sure that such self-exculpatory histories cannot be written.

Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put "I love Mom" on the license plate.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.

Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.

My parents were my worst audience.