There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

We progress a step farther, in each tick of the clock

That's my parenting style - 'Go watch the TV.' I'm one of 11 children, and my mother's parenting style was, 'There's the TV. Go watch it. Mommy's got 10 other people to take care of.'

The body moves naturally, automatically, unconsciously, without any personal intervention or awareness. But if we begin to use our faculty of reasoning, our actions become slow and hesitant.

Barack Obama spent his first day as president-elect putting together his transition team. And if you believe MSNBC, by tomorrow he will have chosen all 12 of his disciples.

Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.

No one can take the place of a friend, no one.

Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect