You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

All I want is to mess around, and I don't really care about, if you love me, if you hate me, you can't save me, baby baby, all my life I've been good

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the coast and the heartland.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.