The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Geography is destiny.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

I don't know how not to get the flu.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

California has more distractions, more activities for the kids, more driving.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

Somewhere on this planet is your best friend. Find that person.

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.