Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.

How would you document the history of today?

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.