Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
A joke's a very serious thing.