War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

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

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

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

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree.