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All diseases were conquered. Death was an adventure for volunteers.

I don’t want fiction. What I want is truth. Or someone’s version of it.

A gravely ill man was waiting for me in a village ten miles distant.

There was no sense in brushing off or any other civilized thing.

I'll rid the world of bad things. But first, I need to get more coffee.

The peanut seller tore sheets out of paperback books to make the cones.

The prisoners were ten ragged scarecrows wearing prison suits.

For my vacation last summer, I visited the Bateer family in Xiwuqi.

I used bravado to protect myself when we lived in poverty.

“We’d be naive,” Crump went on, “not to assume that people are vile.”

I sometimes forget I’m a horse. I’m also a man dressed as a horse.

My grandfather committed my grandmother to a mental asylum.

I want to focus on bears. On knowing them, and on what they need.

Man is always beginning everything anew, even in his own life.

“We see you tryin’ to hide. Ain’t no use tryin’ to hide in God’s House.”

“Maybe you should leave the rumba to those who know how to do it.”

The guy who drove the mother to the morgue hands him an empty. Nostrils a little raw, displaced, conscripted, by your Shock and Awe.

“I’d like to talk to C about her personal statement,” Blattman said.

Advance planning was never Hank’s strong suit, he had to leave her.

Two weeks after she and Mark were married, Hannah fell in love.

She favoured me with an even more viciously scornful “Don’t care!”

Americans have always a kind of tenderness for cheat.

In a way she enjoyed the slow, sad feeling of letting it go.

Three months is a long time to be away from the person you love.

The thought of entertaining our relatives filled me with horror.

I needed a paycheck a lot more than I needed to be kissed.

The guards ripped off Mara’s clothes, pinning her head against the wall.

Identify where you came from, where you are, and where you wish to go.

If he’d had that seat belt on, he would have been pinned inside.