Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I write about have a core of "this actually (could have) happened."

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

There is hope for you.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

Learn and train yourself to take the hits in life. Obstacles, barriers and setbacks will come. What matters is how you tackle them, work your way around or find your way through them.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said. Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane.

A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

When you're tan, you feel better about yourself

I have definitely gone through my ups and downs and faced my adversity and my nay-sayers, but managed to do all right. It is a pretty classic tale.