Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .

Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration.)

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this, ’ Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. ‘Our stomachs are graveyards.

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline

The greatest enemy of any vision is discouragement or disappointment

If I were doing five cop shows, I'd probably start struggling to find an identity for each one and struggling to find inspirations.

I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

September is the other January.

It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a tremendous loss. And we all have to rally around that piece of it.

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

I think whenever you cast someone, someone's going to be critical about it.