When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of...
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain. I believe this is how Thomas Stone materializ...
Geography is destiny.
It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. At...
Everyone needed an obsession.
A man is only as rich as the number of children he fathers. After all, what else do we leave behind in this world...
Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the b...
Being the first born gives you great patience.
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'dVanity makes beauty contemptibleWisdom is more valuable than riches.
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't you...
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
