Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Loss was a night that never ended.

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

I'm Dave Chappelle and I'm a chronic masturbator.

Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual, I would say, Christian dynamics that are awesome.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.