Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

would you dare to love me?

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

The king is dead. Long live the queen.

I asked my dad, “If we were going to have two dads, should we call you Dad Number One and Dad Number Two?

The greatest vision of sin that a person canever receive is to look at the cross.

Islam is about finding your own space.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.

Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.