You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.