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.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

She answered with a passion I didn’t expect & I was lost. In that moment our hearts beat as one. In that moment I knew she loved me." #Ren

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

I'm not conflicted. Because I know. There's me, and there's the show.

Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations!

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

When you love yourself, you'll feel sorry for those that hate you instead of hating them back.