From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

Tell me, who in this life, were never guided in course of their realization of their goal?

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.