In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.

Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.