There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Travel is a worthwhile voyage.

Sow something positive to somebody's life and you'll get that positivity back to your life because you reap what you sow.

Worship is not love.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.

I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever

I have dual citizenship; I would be happy to go to England. I would be very happy to go to America.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we? - Sandry after the pirate attack