That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends.

Only a philosopher would consider taking Oedipus as a model for a normal, unproblematic relation between an action and the maxim of the act.

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.

One can always find hands for a work of destruction.

I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.

Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.

On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

When everything gets turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions