The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

I have not told the half of what I saw.

The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Without stones there is no arch.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Forgive yourself when you fall down because we all fall down.

I won't accept anything less than forever with you.

I'm exhausted from not talking.

I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past.

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way.

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.