She once again thought about how badly she wanted to crawl back beneath the mound of already cooling blankets that covered her bed like an inviting nest.

Jules stood up and stretched gracelessly. “Let’s hurry up and pay before she”-she indicated Claire with a flick of her thumb-“sees something shiny and we lose her again.

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home.

Think not that humility is weakness it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer bow thyself and become invincible.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

I have held healthy respects of bears along with assorted crocodiles, snakes and lots of other animals. You know, bears are dangerous, you have to be super careful.

My default is self-destruction, and anything on top of that is a bloody lot of work.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.

I will not serve Allah like a laborer, in expectation of my wages.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.