People were crazy with pain and secrets.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

The common factor in all our experiences is wakeful consciousness which turns what happens into an experience or a meaningful reality.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

That Indians are lawless people, I would change that because it's probably the most harmful stereotype.