I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

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.

[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.

I think love and hate intertwine far too much for humanity's own good, yet we choose to compare them like vinegar and water.

I can’t get enough of you, ” he said against her neck. “When I walk away from you I feel like I’ve cut myself off from breathing.

Ah, if he had ever been a slave he would have known how difficult it was to trust white men.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.

Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.