Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

The war brought some changes to Colombo. But it was the villages that changed far more than the towns.

You are not Dostoevsky, ' said the woman...'You never can tell...' he answered.'Dostoevsky is dead, ' the woman said, a bit uncertainly.'I protest!' he said with heat, 'Dostoevsky is immortal!

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.

We were breaking away from anything that linked us to this world, but by doing that those ideas remained even stronger. Fables represent the basis for what I wanted to say about human beings.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

I want to become the player that the offense gameplans around, that the offense fears coming into the game.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.