Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative

But war had a taming effect

What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

Art is communication.

He loved dogs.She loved cats.That's the only possible reason they could figure out for their after-marriage fighting like Cats & Dogs.

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun's click that her gun isn't loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.