“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.”

“Its not going to be easy, but its kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.”

“Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the banks money and youre just another one of their creditors.”

“We had won the war, but when the insurgency reared its ugly head, we lost everything we had gained.”

“War is the most profitable business on earth”

“To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.”

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”

“Her question was clear-Father, where does the Loss reside?In the sighs?Cheeks with tears wiped?A lost appetite?Owning a room confined?Or in the smiles all falsified?Thus, the Father decide,It is no...”

“Find time for a private conversation with your creator so that you can ask Him about the purpose of your existence”

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.”

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”

“Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.”

“In nothing is the difference between the Americans and the Soviets so marked as in the attitude, not only toward writers, but of writers toward their system. For in the Soviet Union the writer's jo...”

“Old stories sometimes slid out of her like lamp oil or light, stories containing details oblique and nearly incomprehensible to me or to anyone who has never known that world.”