It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

DWIGHT:Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

All identification is for control and ownership.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

Education must start from birth.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

You get these fear memories that are hard to undo.