He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Do you understand the sadness of geography?

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, 'Faya!' That was a good day.

The only thing worse than a Mexican Stand Off is a Peace Pact that Fails!

But what now? What am I supposed to do with all these feelings?

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.

Mike Tyson is a sharp puncher. Earnie Shavers was a PUNISHING puncher. There was a difference between the two. Because when Shavers hit you, you feel it all the way through your body.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country.

Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.