I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.

The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.

God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.

It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.