Without dignity, identity is erased.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

We just sat there and watched the plane pass the island, and it never came back, " he said. "I could see it on the radar. It makes you feel terrible. Life was cheap in war.

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.

Practise, practise, practise writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong.

Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

You gotta stay 'fresh to death,' I call it. Fresh outfit, fresh haircut, fresh tan. Just stay fresh.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.