Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.