In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Massive success the best revenge is.

And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming home.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

Charity is the drowning of justice in the craphole of mercy.

It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.