I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.

The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.

Every war has turning points and every person too.