She wondered if all boys were like this, their meanness a self defense.

Sarat smiled at the thought. "You couldn't just let us kill ourselves in peace, could you?""Come now, " said Yousef. "Everyone fights an American war.

Everyone fights an American war.

It seemed to Karina further proof that wartime was the only time the world became as simple and carnivorously liberating as it must exist at all times in men's minds.

Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a set of flimsy pinwheels turning in the direction of obvious things.

No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

Work? It’s just serious play.