Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

Our power comes from the earth

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

They breathed. They felt their lungs fill the sky, and they let the dark clouds inside them flow out. Then they connected to the earth.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.