If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

Being a POW certainly doesn't qualify anyone to be president.

I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

I have always said the French team is the most important thing that has happened to me. I thought deeply about it and I want to play for France again.