The realization that my parents, too, felt pain and fear frightened me more than any strangers could.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.

Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.

Music, I'd heard him say, was like dessert. He could live without it, but life just wasn't as good.

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

I think we're infinite beings. We have to stay limitless.

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If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

I should have been a stuntwoman.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.