I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.

You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.