The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

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.

People and events of wonder and magic are the lifeblood of the world.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

One of the achievements of which I am most proud was the codification, the writing into U.S. law, of the U.S. embargo on the Castro dictatorship.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.