Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

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.

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

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.

The art of peaceful living comes down to living compassionately & wisely.

Clouds are just nature's stepping stones to the heavens.

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

Genius is clairvoyant.

Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!

I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.