Sublime

Besides my conscience, my liver was the most abused part of my body.

(Nothing, the General muttered, is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.)

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

General Võ Nguyên Giáp, the Vietnamese MacArthur, the man who single-handedly defeated the Japanese, the French, the Americans, and the Chinese.

At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.

most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the United States have fled from wars—many of which this country has had a hand in.

Death is everywhere, oppressive and beautiful.