In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

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

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Sad stories make good books

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he had come to know like a dangerous foreign country.

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable.

Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions.

It is not like every episode [of "Mary and Jane"] people are sitting around getting high.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that won't use the term radical Islamic terrorism, won't use it.

Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like Shrek or The Simpsons, Robin Hood manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.

Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.