However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.

You may think that's funny Osama but you never can squeeze every last bit of pride out of a human being. It's like a tube of toothpaste. You can twist it and you can crush it but there's always a tiny bit left isn't there?

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

And thus love makes fools of us all.