If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust

Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

There was no Lo to behold.