She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

We are all migrants through time.

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.

Talkers are no good doers.

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

Friends part foreverwild geese lost in cloud

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!