With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Madness, and then illumination.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues....

Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.

The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.