Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.

No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.

You will have the last word.' 'Your name will be that word.

She felt as buoyantly patriotic as her Chechen classmates who could trace their family trees back to the acorns

Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.

Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years.

But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.

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Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.

Being rich means you get to worry about everything except money.

There's always going to be space for battle in hip hop. For competition. It's just an inseparable part of the game.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind.