A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Just add the feature trust in your profile.

Counting both times I cheated this week I won at solitaire twice.

No commander in chief would ever say, "I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

I was always told that if people don't want a picture with you, or they don't want an autograph from you, that doesn't mean you're not doing anything good.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

The platform is either an enabler of creativity or it's a block.