I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I have not told the half of what I saw.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Without stones there is no arch.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

What can go wrong will go wrong.

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.