There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

How do you eat your roots?

This world is out of date

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

I still hear the world spinning.

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

your gonna meet new people, but be careful most of them are 2 faced. But remember the most important people is God and family aren't 2 faced so look up to the ones that are important in your life.

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.