What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.

But war had a taming effect

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.

To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

The sins of the Fathers that are visited upon the Sons is not ignorance, but indifference to the truth.

You always have my attention. When you're in the room, you're my sun.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.