Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards.

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

Though problems have the eerie ability to pull us down but I am my own hope and I can’t let myself down.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.