This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

A Salute to our Journey's End! Good Riddance.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.

It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.

In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible.