Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

I never met a word I didn't love

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob.

I do have a relationship with Putin, and I can tell you that he's very interested in what we're doing here today.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.