We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

A leader in 10 minutes can unlock your potentials which in reality would have taken you 10 years to do without them.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people.

I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.