I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

He was the kind of boy to crush your heart into dust then snort it off the table in front of you.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.