The story flared, then faded.

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.

The art of seduction should be from within yourself, not from your outer appearance. If whoever you're doing this for doesn't realize that... then, honey, you're seducing the wrong person.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!