Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Every challenge you conquer, will make you courageous.

I might be on the fence about this life, but I 'm not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you.

Fight for whatever is yours even though it means you'll suffer, if you really want it, you'll do whatever it takes to be yours again.

It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

You can never go wrong with kindness.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?