feelings existed in only one form: magnified.

So much of what people believe makes no sense, Wylie.

Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.

Simple" Kate had wanted to say, "I'm already dead.

Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall

Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.

For the first time in my life, my future was a blank page. It was perfect. And beyond scary.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans.

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I was a good little boy and a good student. I've never been arrested.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.