A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

There's no reason to play in the NBA if you don't believe you can win it all.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help matters.