If we get separated there’s not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the pretense of hope because that may be all we have.

Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.

His pupils dilate when he sees me. His lips part as he momentarily forgets to marshal his expression, and I could swear he stops breathing for several heartbeats.

Who will guard us against the guardians?

When a man in purple and screaming pink stares at you, you know it's time to change your appearance.

Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.

...there’s no such thing as a dirty fight.

That's crazy, " I say"In case you hadn't noticed, the whole world has gone crazy. It's time to adapt or die.""By throwing crazy at crazy?

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street.

Learning is the only game worth playing in life.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain, " one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

I don't think the sunrise is as good as the moonlight.

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

When you live guided by intuition rather than thought, your life dances like writing on water, fresh and untraceable.