I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.