...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming.

There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true

In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics.

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp