Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

A woman sees war differently.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?

A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it all at first.

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.

Downloading songs is not good.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.