Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce the word looked

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

some people are lonely for all the right reasons.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool, " Dan decided. "Maybe I could-""No, Dan, " Amy said. "You can't collect human bones.""Awww.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

The light in the world comes principally from two sources,-the sun, and the student's lamp.

The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.

I don't really get recognized.

Pray with perseverance, with faith, with calmness and serenity.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.