there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.

I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Music is almost mystical to me. It really has an incredibly powerful force.

Through faith, the weak times can become peak times.

Skateboarding is training, but I don't think of it as training. It's fun.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don't do that.

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.