He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?

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.

God will not allow you to add the words "next time" to now faith.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.