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...

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.

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?

Your thoughts can change your actions and your actions can change your thoughts.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.