See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile.” (Victor)

I don’t know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I’m not one of them, ” I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)“You are. You just don’t know yet.” (Victor)

I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless.

When the tea is brought at five o'clockAnd all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyesIs suddenly purring there.

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

I have great respect for Angela Merkel, even if we have a lot of differences.

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.